Looker Course Content
This Looker course content is developed by industry-renowned experts to help you gain a foundational competence with Looker. The Syllabus is fully updated with the latest advancements and presented via a series of lectures, practical examples, and hands-on exercises. Explore below online Looker training modules to enhance your expertise with business intelligence and data analytics.
Getting Started with Looker
Discover what Looker is and how it helps in making critical business decisions backed by data. Learn about the two main types of content – Looks, and Dashboards, and know how to use them to build reports in this Looker online training module.
- Navigate to Explores and Saved Content
- Create Looks
- Work with Dimensions and Measures
- Exploring Data in Looker
- Build and Save Reports
Introduction to Data Modeling
Discover how to model data in LookML, Looker’s Modeling Language.
- Dimensions and fact tables
- Dimensional model
- Star and SnowFlake schema
- Understanding the data source
Getting started with LookML
Gain an understanding of how to build and manage Looker data models and set the foundation necessary to learn more about advanced Looker’s features.
- Understanding Looker Project Structure
- How to create a view
- How to create a model
- Building Explores
- How looker generates SQL
- SQL runner basics
- Editing and Validating LookML
- Data security in looker
- Model Parameters
- Explore Parameters
- View Parameters
- Join Parameters
- Field Parameters
- Reusing existing dimensions
- Measures
- Sets
Building Visualizations:
Building Visualizations
- Creating user-defined dashboard
- Creating LookML Dashboard
- Create Different Visualizations
- Table
- Bar Chart
- Scatter plot
- Line Chart
- Area
- Pie Chart
- Single Value(KPI)
- Box Plot
- Funnel Chart
- Donut Multiples
Advanced LookML Concepts
This Looker Training Module will teach you the ins and outs of working with LookML with practical examples and hands-on exercises.
- Derived tables
- Reusing code with extends
- Table calculations
- Liquid variables and Parameters
- Filtering Explore data
- Always filter on Explore
- Always where on explore
- Conditional filter
- Content Validation
- Changing Filter suggestions
- Template filters
