In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker
This course is part of Creating Business Value with Data and Looker Specialization
Instructor: Google Cloud Training
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What you'll learn
Use dimensions, measures, filters, and pivots to analyze and visualize data
Create advanced metrics instantaneously with table calculations
Create visualizations using Looks and dashboards
Share Looker content with others
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Taught in English
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There are 6 modules in this course
This module provides an overview of the Looker user interface and its key components for data explorers.
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3 videos1 assignment
This module reviews three data analysis building blocks - dimensions, measures, and filters.
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9 videos1 assignment1 app item
This module explores the use of dashboards for multiple visualizations and boards to curate Looker content.
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5 videos1 assignment
This module explores pivoting data in Looker to turn a selected dimension into several columns. The module also covers the writing of table calculations to instantaneously create new metrics and offset calculations to programmatically reference values from other rows or columns in your query results to calculate new values.
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10 videos1 assignment1 app item
This module explores the creation of single, stand-alone reports (Looks) and dashboards, which can be used to combine individual visualizations.
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2 videos1 assignment
This module explores how you can share or export content from Looker.
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3 videos1 assignment
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Reviewed on Aug 8, 2022
It is very great coarse content & very knowledgable trainig. .It is very helpful to me to understand the Data Visualisation. .Thanks Coursera & Team. .
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Reviewed on Nov 1, 2021
It was helpful for beginner to understand the looker . If more exercises were there it would be great
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Reviewed on Oct 21, 2021
5 stars, but still could be better - the last two modules felt a little off - because if you did previous two labs you already know the material.
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