Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker

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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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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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No prior experience required

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6 hours to complete

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

371 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

Flexible schedule

6 hours to complete

Learn at your own pace

94%

Most learners liked this course

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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Tools you'll learn

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Assessments

6 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 6 modules in this course

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.

This module provides an overview of the Looker user interface and its key components for data explorers.

What's included

3 videos1 assignment

This module reviews three data analysis building blocks - dimensions, measures, and filters.

What's included

8 videos1 assignment1 app item1 plugin

8 videos Total 19 minutes

Dimensions in Looker 3 minutes
Measures in Looker 2 minutes
Example: Exploring measures using customer data 3 minutes
Using dimensions and measures 2 minutes
Example: Combining dimensions and measures 2 minutes
Filtering dimensions 2 minutes
Filtering measures 4 minutes
Example: Filtering with measures 2 minutes

1 assignment Total 18 minutes

Module 2 Quiz 18 minutes

1 app item Total 60 minutes

Lab: Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker 60 minutes

1 plugin Total 15 minutes

Accessing and completing labs 15 minutes

This module explores the use of dashboards for multiple visualizations and boards to curate Looker content.

What's included

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.

What's included

10 videos1 assignment1 app item

10 videos Total 37 minutes

Pivoting data in Looker 2 minutes
Example: Working with pivots 3 minutes
Introduction to table calculations 3 minutes
Types of table calculations 5 minutes
Writing table calculations 6 minutes
Example: Writing and visualizing table calculations 3 minutes
Example: Percent of total table calculations 5 minutes
Introducing offset functions 5 minutes
Writing offset calculations 4 minutes
Example: Writing offset calculations 2 minutes

1 assignment Total 24 minutes

Module 4 Quiz 24 minutes

1 app item Total 60 minutes

Lab: Getting Started with Table Calculations and Offsets in Looker 60 minutes

This module explores the creation of single, stand-alone reports (Looks) and dashboards, which can be used to combine individual visualizations.

What's included

2 videos1 assignment

This module explores how you can share or export content from Looker.

What's included

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. .

Reviewed on May 10, 2023

It's a very good and detailed oriented course and its enhanced by skills boost. Thanks to You .Coursera and Google Cloud

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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