Build skills to leverage cloud data with Looker. Introduction to Data in the Cloud and Looker for a Looker Developer

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Creating Business Value with Data and Looker SpecializationGoogle Cloud

What you will learn

Learn the skills needed to do data exploration and analysis in Looker to empower others to solve business needs.
Use dimensions, measures, filters, table calculations and pivots to analyze and visualize data.
Create and share near real-time data visualizations using Looks, dashboards, and boards.
Use the Looker Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and project version control to modify LookML projects and curate Explores that empower business users to leverage data in their everyday workflows

About this Specialization

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This series of courses introduces data in the cloud and Looker to someone who would like to become a Looker Developer. It includes the background on how data is managed in the cloud and how it can be used to create value for an organization. You will then learn the skills you need as a Looker Developer to use the Looker Modeling Language (LookML) to empower your organization to conduct self-serve data exploration, analysis and visualization.

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Course 2 includes hands-on labs with Looker to build skills in both data analysis and visualization. In the first lab, learners work with dimensions, measures, filters, and pivots to query, select, and visualize data in Looker using Explores. In the second lab, learners use table calculations and offsets to instantaneously create new metrics from data using Explores.

Course 3 includes hands-on labs focused on building LookML skills to curate data experiences for business users. In the first lab, learners practice creating dimensions and measures in LookML and learn about the different data types that LookML supports. In the second lab, learners create and persist derived tables in LookML to create new tables that do not yet exist in the underlying database.

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English

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There are 3 Courses in this Specialization

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Course 1

Innovating with Data and Google Cloud

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Cloud technology on its own only provides a fraction of the true value to a business; When combined with data–lots and lots of it–it has the power to truly unlock value and create new experiences for customers.

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Course 2

Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker

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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.

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Course 3

Developing Data Models with LookML

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