Tag: Looker

BigQuery Looker VPC Service Controls Nov. 18, 2024

Tricks for Visualizing BigQuery Data Protected by VPC Service Controls in LookerStudio - This article provides tips and tricks for securely visualizing such data in Looker Studio while maintaining the integrity of your environment. The key steps include setting up the Looker Studio Service Agent, creating a Service Account, adding the Service Account as an authorized principal in the VPC Service Controls settings, and configuring data credentials in Looker Studio. By following these steps, you can securely visualize data protected by VPC Service Controls in Looker Studio.

BigQuery Data Analytics Looker Oct. 28, 2024

From Data to Insights: Building a Data Engineering Pipeline Analyzing BayWheels Bike Data - The example of end-to-end data pipeline.

BigQuery Billing dbt Looker Sept. 30, 2024

Linking Looker activity with BigQuery costs - Monitoring and optimizing the BigQuery costs generated by Looker usage.

Data Analytics Gemini Looker Official Blog Sept. 30, 2024

AI-powered visualization and LookML assistants debut for Gemini in Looker - Gemini in Looker, a business intelligence tool, introduces two new AI-powered features: LookML Assistant and Visualization Assistant. LookML Assistant simplifies LookML code creation, while Visualization Assistant allows users to customize visualizations using natural language. These innovations enhance data analysis and collaboration within organizations.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Workspace Sept. 30, 2024

Empower data-driven insights with new Google Workspace Analytics Block for Looker - Google Workspace Analytics Block is now available in the Looker Marketplace. It offers pre-built metrics for Workspace administrators to create dashboards that capture valuable business and user productivity metrics.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Sept. 30, 2024

Winners of the 2024 Looker Hackathon (Vertex AI Edition) - The 2024 Looker Hackathon (Vertex AI Edition) invited developers and data communities to collaborate and create AI-driven applications, tools, and data experiences using Looker, Looker Studio, and Vertex AI. Over 160 participants from 34 countries participated, resulting in 20 innovative hacks.

Data Analytics Gemini Looker Official Blog Sept. 23, 2024

Chat with your business data - Conversational Analytics comes to Gemini in Looker - Conversational Analytics, a new feature in Looker, allows users to ask questions of their data in natural language and receive insights powered by AI. It connects to BigQuery and Google Sheets, enabling users to directly ask questions of their data stored in these locations.

Looker Official Blog Visualization Sept. 23, 2024

Tell a more complete data story with customized Looker charts and visualizations - Looker's Chart Config Editor enables you to customize Looker visualizations and create impactful data experiences. You can configure each line's appearance and labels in a line chart, enable inline scrolling for visualizations, and fully customize the data labels for a pie chart and other chart visualizations.

Looker Sept. 16, 2024

My Learning Journey on LookML - Sharing a learning journey on LookML, a modeling language used in Looker for building data models and generating SQL queries.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Sept. 2, 2024

Grounding Analytical AI Agents with Looker’s Trusted Metrics - Bytecode, a Google Cloud partner, explains how to integrate Looker's trusted metrics with analytical AI agents to provide fast and reliable insights for AI-powered Business Intelligence. By combining large language models with Looker's semantic layer, businesses can quickly fine-tune and ground their analytical agents in their business truths, enabling end users to access trusted insights easily.

BigQuery Dataform GCP Experience Looker Aug. 19, 2024

Running a Modern Data Platform at Nando’s — Part 1/2— Overview - Nando's runs a modern data platform using Google Cloud's data mesh architecture, with each domain team owning their data in a data pond. Data is ingested into BigQuery and transformed using Dataform, ensuring it is clean, consistent, and fresh.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Aug. 19, 2024

Looker opens semantic layer via new SQL Interface and connectors for Tableau & others - Looker, a business intelligence platform, introduces new BI connectors, including a custom-built connector for Tableau, and an Open SQL Interface for easier integration with SQL-based tools.

Data Analytics Gemini Looker Official Blog July 22, 2024

AI-powered slide generation and formula assistant come to Gemini in Looker - Gemini in Looker, a business intelligence tool, introduces two new features: automated Google Slides generation and an AI-powered formula assistant. With Google Slides generation, users can create presentations with insightful chart summaries from Looker Studio Pro in seconds.

Big Data BigQuery Looker July 1, 2024

Utilizing ClickHouse to Reduce Costs from Your BigQuery and Looker Usage Part 1 - Reduce your Looker and BigQuery Costs by Utilizing Clickhouse to “cache” your data.

Big Data BigQuery Looker July 1, 2024

Utilizing ClickHouse to Reduce Costs from Your BigQuery and Looker Usage Part 2 - Reduce your Looker and BigQuery Costs by Utilizing Clickhouse to “cache” your data.

BigQuery Looker Official Blog June 24, 2024

Normalize billing data across clouds with new Looker template and BigQuery views - Google Cloud introduces a new Looker template and updates the BigQuery view to support FOCUS v1.0 GA, a unifying specification for cloud billing data. The Looker template allows users to visualize open billing data in Looker, while the updated BigQuery view transforms data towards the FOCUS v1.0 GA format.

GCP Experience Looker Official Blog May 13, 2024

How Trendyol solves cloud governance at scale with Looker

Looker Python April 22, 2024

A step-by-step guide to maintaining a clean Looker instance - In this article, we will walk through the process of creating an automated clean-up script for Looker, using Python.

Gemini Looker Official Blog April 15, 2024

Introducing Gemini in Looker to bring intelligent AI-powered BI to everyone

BigQuery Looker March 11, 2024

Benchmarking your Financial Performance using Looker and Google BigQuery

Looker Official Blog Feb. 19, 2024

Looker Hackathon 2023 results: Best hacks and more

Generative AI Looker Feb. 11, 2024

What’s new with Looker 2024? - Summarizing the Looker 2024 roadmap.

BigQueryML Generative AI Looker Vertex AI Feb. 11, 2024

Generative AI Comes to Looker via Vertex AI and BigQuery BQML - An overview of Looker's roadmap for 2024.

BigQuery BigQueryML Looker Feb. 5, 2024

A Technical Guide for Building BigQueryML Models in Looker - In this blog post, we will explore the capabilities and workflow for generating, evaluating, and utilizing machine learning (ML) models in BigQuery from Looker.

Looker Official Blog Feb. 5, 2024

LookML or ELT? Three reasons why you need LookML

BigQuery Looker Jan. 8, 2024

Using _PARTITIONDATE BigQuery pseudo-columns in Looker - Problems you can accounter and their solutions when you use PARTITIONDATE columns in BigQuery.

BigQuery Data Analytics dbt Looker Dec. 11, 2023

How Rittman Analytics Does Web Analytics and Marketing Attribution, using Google BigQuery, Looker, dbt and Segment - Creating a web performance dashboard that brings together key web performance metrics in one place.

BigQuery Infrastructure Looker Media CDN Dec. 3, 2023

Media CDN Custom Dashboard using BigQuery and Looker Studio - This document will guide you through the steps to deploy a Media CDN custom Dashboard in the Google Cloud Console using Log Sink, BigQuery and Looker Studio.

BigQuery Looker Visualization Dec. 3, 2023

Multi Instance Deployment with Looker - Using different environments in Looker.

Event Looker Official Blog Dec. 3, 2023

Build, Hack and Learn at the 2023 Looker Hackathon

Looker Official Blog Nov. 6, 2023

Looker Studio Pro now available for Android and iOS - Today, we are bringing Looker Studio Pro to your mobile devices through a new application available for Android on Google Play and for iOS on the App Store, enabling you to view reports and get real-time data about your business from anywhere.

Looker Official Blog Visualization Nov. 6, 2023

How Looker helps startups uncover data-driven insights - An overview of Looker, a business intelligence and data analytics platform.

BigQuery Looker NoSQL Oct. 30, 2023

iGEM, GCP, and Neo4j: Where Synthetic Biology Meets Artificial Intelligence - Reorganize the iGEM Parts Registry for synthetic biologists.

Javascript Looker Visualization Oct. 9, 2023

Creating Custom Visualisation on Looker using D3.js - Integrating custom D3.js visualisations into Looker.

AI Looker Machine Learning Official Blog Sept. 25, 2023

Bring AI to Looker with the Machine Learning Accelerator

Duet AI Looker Official Blog Sept. 4, 2023

The future of Looker is powered by AI - Duet AI in Looker includes direct integrations to conversational AI and large foundation models that will change the way you work with data.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog July 24, 2023

Access to Looker data models from Power BI now generally available - Power BI users can now access centrally defined metrics and data relationships from Looker’s semantic layer through Power BI Desktop.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog July 3, 2023

Making insights actionable with new Looker Studio scheduling capabilities - When scheduling a report, Looker Studio now lets you apply distinct filter conditions, and create and manage multiple schedules.

Looker June 26, 2023

Simplifying SAML Authentication in Looker: A Step-by-Step Guide - Integrating Looker and Okta with SAML: A Simplified Guide.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog June 19, 2023

Top hacks from Cloud BI Hackathon 2022 - Check out the top hacks from Cloud BI Hackathon 2022.

Looker Visualization June 5, 2023

5 Tips to Optimise your Looker Dashboards - Tips to optimize your experience with Looker.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog May 15, 2023

Looker now available from Google Cloud console - Creating a Looker (Google Cloud core) instance from the Cloud console makes it easy to test the business intelligence solution in your environment.

BigQueryML Looker Machine Learning May 8, 2023

BigQuery ML and Looker: Meeting the Predictive Analytics Challenge - Integrating Machine Learning models at scale into data visualizations and dashboards with BigQuery ML and Looker.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog April 3, 2023

Introducing Looker Modeler: a single source of truth for BI metrics - By defining metrics and storing them in Looker Modeler, users can consume metrics based on fresh data across popular BI tools and cloud databases.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog March 20, 2023

Sumitovant more than doubles its research output in its quest to save lives - Sumitovant chose Looker to quickly build and scale flexible queries on massive data sets and integrate with more data sources via API.

BigQuery Chronicle Looker March 13, 2023

Monitoring Detection Rule Latency in Chronicle SIEM - This post covers how you can monitor Detection Rule latency in Chronicle SIEM, and common causes of late arriving Detections.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Feb. 20, 2023

Connected Sheets for Looker is now generally available - Connected Sheets for Looker allows you to access centrally defined metrics and data relationships from Looker’s semantic layer through Google Sheets.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Jan. 30, 2023

Better together: Looker connector for Looker Studio now generally available - You can now access your Looker modeled data in Looker Studio with the Looker connector, now generally available.

BigQuery GCP Experience Looker Terraform Jan. 30, 2023

Why we use Terraform for BigQuery - Using Terraform for Looker related BigQuery views.

BigQuery Looker Terraform Jan. 16, 2023

HOW TO: Access GCP Services from Looker’s Extension Framework - This tutorial covers establishing a connection to GCP services like BigQuery from Looker, as well as automating the provisioning of the required resources using Terraform.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Dec. 12, 2022

Getting started with Looker Studio Pro - Using Looker Studio Pro gives you dedicated support, and helps with challenges like seeing who uses which reports and managing access to content.

Data Analytics GCP Experience Looker Official Blog Dec. 5, 2022

Seer Interactive gets the best marketing results for their clients using Looker - Seer Interactive turned to Looker as their Business Intelligence platform, helping them design a new, data analytics foundation in tandem with BigQuery.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Oct. 17, 2022

Introducing the next evolution of Looker, your unified business intelligence platform - Presenting the future of business intelligence: Looker, which now has deep integration with Data Studio and Google’s top products in AI/ML, productivity and more.

BigQuery Google Maps Platform Looker Python Sept. 5, 2022

Find nearby cafes on Looker using Google Maps API and BigQuery Remote Functions - Running a little snippet of python from a Looker dashboard.

Data Analytics DevOps Looker Official Blog SRE Aug. 1, 2022

Managing the Looker ecosystem at scale with SRE and DevOps practices - Following DevOps and SRE best practices can help organizations bring order to distributed Looker environments.

BigQuery Looker July 18, 2022

Create control charts using BigQuery statistical aggregate functions and Looker - Yet another approach for monitoring KPI targets.

BigQuery Data Science Looker July 4, 2022

Tell Me, BigQuery: What is Trending on Google? - Exploring and enriching the international BigQuery Google Trends dataset with Looker.

BigQuery Data Science Looker May 16, 2022

Looker and BigQuery ML: create control charts for your KPIs - Or how to monitor your actual vs target KPI values on a highly-dimensional dataset.

Cloud Composer Data Analytics Looker Official Blog May 9, 2022

Orchestrate Looker data transformations with Cloud Composer - New Looker operators in Cloud Composer help you orchestrate Looker data transformations at scale.

Data Analytics Data Studio Looker Official Blog April 11, 2022

Bringing together the best of both sides of BI with Looker and Data Studio - Get the self-serve speed you need with the certainty of central BI by integrating Looker and Data Studio.

Compute Engine Looker March 14, 2022

Customer-hosted Looker installation on Google Cloud Platform VM - This article is about Looker's customer-hosted installation steps, a.k.a., on-prem or self-hosted installation.

Looker Feb. 28, 2022

Looker — self-hosted installation on GCP - Looker is Google Cloud’s cloud-native Enterprise BI Platform enabling access to near real-time data when and where you need it.

GCP Certification Looker Feb. 7, 2022

Notes from my Google Cloud Looker LookML Developer Certification Exam - A process of preparation for LookerML certification exam.

BigQuery Data Analytics Looker Machine Learning Official Blog Jan. 31, 2022

Explaining machine learning models to business users using BigQueryML and Looker - Explainable AI can help business users understand why a machine learning model makes a prediction. In this post, we show how BigQuery and Looker make it easier to build interpretable AI models.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Jan. 17, 2022

Top 10 takeaways from Looker’s 2021 JOIN@Home conference - Get motivated to up your data game with the 10 most important takeaways from Looker’s 2021 user conference.

Looker Nov. 22, 2021

Adding Forecasting to your Looker Report and Dashboards - A new feature introduced in Looker recently is Forecasting, giving you the ability to forecast forward one or more measures in your look or dashboard based on historical data in your application or data warehouse.

BigQuery dbt GCP Experience Looker Nov. 22, 2021

An introduction to Monzo’s data stack - An overview of the modern data stack at Monzo bulit with GCP products.

Looker Official Blog Nov. 15, 2021

Going beyond the dashboard paradigm with Looker Components - With Looker Components, we hope to introduce a third way to embed data that’s easier to build than a fully-custom front-end on Looker’s API, but offers more flexibility than a monolithic iframe embedded dashboard. And the way we plan to do this is by identifying and exposing reusable patterns in our dashboards themselves.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Nov. 15, 2021

Going beyond BI with the Looker Marketplace - This post explores how the Looker marketplace acts as an inspiration for developers to build content for the Looker marketplace.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Nov. 15, 2021

Solving business problems with data - Learn how to understand your customer journey, unlock value from first-party data, and optimize existing cloud infrastructure with Looker solutions.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Nov. 15, 2021

JOIN 2021: Sharing our product vision with the Looker community - JOIN is Looker’s annual user conference, and this blog welcomes everyone to the event and gives a sneak peak into the product capabilities and features we will be announcing during the product keynote.

Data Analytics GCP Experience Looker Official Blog Nov. 15, 2021

Predict hospital readmission rates with Google Cloud Platform - Examine real-world use cases for predicting 7-day hospital readmission rates utilizing FHIR data stored in BigQuery, along with BigQuery ML, Looker, and Cloud Functions.

Cloud Composer Data Analytics GCP Experience Looker Oct. 11, 2021

Out of the data Tar Pit: How loveholidays escaped from a legacy reporting system and kept the data flowing - How Loveholiday improved their reporting by investing in technology simplification and building a brand new ETL system using GCP products.

BigQuery IoT Looker Visualization Sept. 27, 2021

GCP IIoT: Visualization and Analytics in Looker for Oil & Gas Systems - An end-to-end demo to build a dashboarding system for visualizing and analyzing Industrial IoT data with Looker.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Aug. 2, 2021

Building with Looker made easier with the Extension Framework - The Extension Framework is a fully hosted development platform that enables developers to build any data-powered application, workflow or tool right in Looker. By eliminating the need to spin up and host infrastructure, the Extension Framework lets developers focus on building great experiences for their users.

BigQuery Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Security July 26, 2021

Extending the power of Chronicle with BigQuery and Looker - Google Cloud security analytics platform, Chronicle, now integrated with BigQuery and Looker improving security operations.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog July 26, 2021

Reimagining the way we experience data with new Looker product features - Google Cloud introduces new features to Looker to help organizations deliver data-driven experiences at scale.

BigQuery Billing Looker Official Blog Visualization July 19, 2021

Optimizing your Google Cloud spend with BigQuery and Looker - Learn how you can export billing data into BigQuery and leverage pre-built dashboards, plus self-service data exploration environments to save costs.

BigQuery Data Analytics Firebase Looker Official Blog July 5, 2021

Creating a unified analytics platform for digital natives - Learn how to leverage Firebase, BigQuery and Looker to create a central platform for cross-functional analytics.

BigQuery Event Looker Official Blog May 3, 2021

Go from Database to Dashboard with BigQuery and Looker - Understand how to quickly go from database to dashboard with BigQuery and Looker at an upcoming webinar where you can see the entire process live.

BigQuery Looker Python April 25, 2021

Simple Period-to-Date Comparisons in BigQuery - Performing period-over-period analyses with SQL via Colab or Looker.

BigQuery Data Science Looker April 19, 2021

Data Patterns in a Multi-cloud Future - Different data patterns that you can adopt for your data science, data engineering, and BI tasks with data spread across multiple clouds.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog March 1, 2021

Accelerate data science workflows with Looker, plus free training to help get started - Learn how data analysts and scientists can use Looker to help with data governance, join our training to walk through working examples of how Looker can be leveraged to help automate and productionalize data science workflows.

Cloud Build Data Science Looker Machine Learning Oct. 5, 2020

Operationalizing BigQuery ML through Cloud Build and Looker - Implementing MLOps with BigQuery ML, Cloud Build and Looker.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog Aug. 10, 2020

Getting to know Looker: How LookML can simplify BI workflows - LookML from Looker, now part of Google Cloud, offers better business intelligence (BI) workflows for data analysts, modelers, engineers, CDOs, IT security, and more.

Data Analytics Looker Official Blog July 20, 2020

Getting to know Looker – common use cases - Business intelligence (BI) tool Looker can help your cloud data work better for you with dashboards, visualizations, data modeling, and more.