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LookML: Data Modeling and Dashboard Delivery Specialization

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LookML: Data Modeling and Dashboard Delivery Specialization

Build Data Models With LookML.

Learn to model data, build dashboards, and deliver trusted insights in Looker.

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Intermediate level

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4 weeks to complete
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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Build governed LookML models using views, dimensions, measures, joins, Explores, and derived tables.

  • Create and deliver Looker dashboards, Looks, alerts, and scheduled reports for business users.

  • Apply filters, Liquid, datagroups, and caching to make analytics workflows more flexible and efficient

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Specialization - 12 course series

Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker

Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker

Course 1, 6 hours

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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Content Management
Category: Dashboard Creation
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Data Sharing
Category: Dashboard
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Collaborative Software
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Analysis
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Manipulation
Looker Functions and Operators

Looker Functions and Operators

Course 2, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Pivot a dimension

  • Reorder columns and remove fields

  • Use table calculations and Use Looker functions

Skills you'll gain

Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Analysis
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Ad Hoc Analysis
Category: Data Literacy
Category: Data Management
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Sending and Scheduling Dashboards in Looker

Sending and Scheduling Dashboards in Looker

Course 3, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Create a new visualization from the Explore and save to a new dashboard

  • Prepare the dashboard for one-time distribution

  • Schedule the dashboard for regular distribution

Skills you'll gain

Category: Dashboard
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Dashboard Creation
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Data Sharing
Creating Tile-based Dashboard Alerts in Looker

Creating Tile-based Dashboard Alerts in Looker

Course 4, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Use the Explore interface to create a visualization.

  • Save a visualization to a new dashboard.

  • Create a tile-based dashboard alert.

  • Modify a time-based dashboard alert.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Dashboard Creation
Category: Dashboard
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Developing Data Models with LookML

Developing Data Models with LookML

Course 5, 6 hours

What you'll learn

  • Define LookML basic terms and building blocks

  • Model new dimensions and measures using LookML and use dashboards to combine key queries and visualizations into a one page executive view

  • Model files of LookML projects to design and build custom Explores for business users

  • Use derived tables in Looker to create new custom tables and use datagroups to manage caching policies

Skills you'll gain

Category: Looker (Software)
Category: SQL
Category: Dashboard Creation
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Dashboard
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Business Intelligence Software
Category: Data Persistence
Looker Developer - Qwik Start

Looker Developer - Qwik Start

Course 6, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Define and read LookML

  • Organize and understand the main LookML structures and create a view

  • Add dimensions and measures to the view

  • Join a view to an existing Explore

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Database Design
Caching and Datagroups with LookML

Caching and Datagroups with LookML

Course 7, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Learn how caching works in Looker

  • Explore how to use LookML datagroups to define caching policies

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Store
Category: Data Management
Category: Query Languages
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Data Visualization Software

What you'll learn

  • Create native derived tables to answer complex questions using derived columns

  • Update a native derived table to generate dynamic values using built-in filter parameters

  • Understand how business users leverage customized native derived tables to answer complex questions

Skills you'll gain

Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Data Analysis
Category: SQL
Category: Google Cloud Platform

What you'll learn

  • Create SQL derived tables to address multiple use cases

  • Update a SQL derived table to generate dynamic values using templated filters with Liquid

  • Understand how business users leverage dynamic SQL derived tables to answer complex questions

Skills you'll gain

Category: Query Languages
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: SQL
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Database Development
Category: Data Manipulation
Filtering Explores with LookML

Filtering Explores with LookML

Course 10, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Understand the different use cases for each filter

  • Use the sql_always_where and sql_always_having filters

  • Use the always_filter

  • Use the conditionally_filter

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Analysis
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Data Access
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Troubleshooting Data Models in Looker

Troubleshooting Data Models in Looker

Course 11, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Use SQL Runner to explore data tables and troubleshoot SQL queries.

  • Use the LookML Validator to validate syntax for defined objects and relationships.

  • Diagnose and resolve error messages from Explore queries.

  • Diagnose and resolve error messages from running the Content Validator.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Maintenance
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Validation
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: Data Analysis Software
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Google Cloud Platform

What you'll learn

  • Use descriptive field names to define dimensions and measures.

  • Leverage additional parameters to organize and provide more context for your data.

  • Create and surface the fewest number of fields and Explores possible.

  • Write sustainable and modular LookML code that can easily be updated, maintained, and reused.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Maintainability
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Model Optimization

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