C-LOOKAV-BOfficial Google Curriculum
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker
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Overview
Learn to do data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done by SQL developers or analysts. Leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content, ask questions of data, create new metrics, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision-making.
What You'll Learn
- Define Looker and the capabilities it provides for working with data.
- Use dimensions, measures, and filters to analyze and visualize data.
- Use dashboards for multiple visualizations and boards to curate Looker content.
- Create advanced metrics by pivoting Looker data and writing table and offset calculations.
- Create visualizations using Looks and dashboards, and share Looker content with others.
Who Should Attend
Business users who need to draw insights from data. Data analysts who are responsible for data analysis and visualization within their organizations.
Prerequisites
None
Products Covered
Looker
Course Modules
1
The Looker Platform
Topics
- What is Looker?
- Looker user interface
- Organizing content with folders
Learning Outcomes
- Define the value proposition of the Looker platform.
- Explain Looker's role in the data analysis process.
- Describe Looker's main user interface components.
- Interpret Looker's hierarchical folder structure for content.
- Discuss different content locations within the Looker platform.
Activities
1 quiz
2
Data Analysis Building Blocks
Topics
- Dimensions in Looker
- Measures in Looker
- Using dimensions and measures
- Filtering dimensions
- Filtering measures
Learning Outcomes
- Define the purpose of a dimension and measure in Looker.
- Identify where end users work with dimensions, measures, and filters.
- Explain how dimensions, measures, and filters contribute to the larger data analysis process in Looker.
- Identify what asset a dimension corresponds to in your database.
- Identify what SQL functions a measure can correspond to.
- Explain how to filter by a dimension.
Activities
3 demos1 lab1 quiz
3
Working with Looker Content
Topics
- Filtering Looks
- Introducing dashboards
- Filtering dashboards
- Curating Looker content in boards
Learning Outcomes
- Explain how to filter within a Look and a dashboard.
- Identify where users can work with dashboards and boards, and filter within Looks and dashboards.
- Explain how dashboards, boards, and filtering can contribute to the data analysis process.
- Define the purpose of a dashboard.
- Explain what a board is in Looker.
- Detail the process of creating a board.
- Detail the process for pinning Looks and dashboards to a board.
Activities
1 demo1 quiz
4
Customizing Explores
Topics
- Pivoting data in Looker
- Introduction to table calculations
- Types of table calculations
- Writing table calculations
- Introducing offset functions
- Writing offset calculations
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the process of pivoting data.
- Identify where users can pivot data, write table calculations, and write offset calculations.
- Identify situations to consider pivoting data and writing a new table calculation.
- Explain how pivoting data, writing table calculations, and writing offset calculations can contribute to the data analysis process.
- Differentiate between a table calculation and an offset calculation.
- Discuss the various types of table calculations.
- Detail the process to write table calculations and offset calculations.
Activities
4 demos1 lab1 quiz
5
Creating New Looker Content
Topics
- Creating new Looks
- Creating new dashboards
Learning Outcomes
- Explain how to create a new Look and dashboard in Looker.
- Identify where users can create new Looks and dashboards.
Activities
1 quiz
6
Sharing Looker Data with Others
Topics
- Sharing and scheduling Looks
- Sharing and scheduling dashboards
- Tile-level dashboard alerts
Learning Outcomes
- List the options to share Looks and dashboards once or with a regular schedule.
- Identify where users can send or schedule Looks and dashboards, and configure tile-level dashboard alerts.
- Explain how to configure a shared or scheduled Look or dashboard.
- Discuss how to choose options that are appropriate for a given situation or business case.
- Identify the options to schedule a tile-level dashboard alert.
Activities
1 quiz
What's Not Covered
- LookML (Looker Modeling Language)
- Looker admin features and functions
Upcoming Classes
13 Feb 2026
13:00:00 - 15:00:00 Australia/Sydney
Virtual
12 seats left
Seats:
Course Details
- Course Code
- C-LOOKAV-B
- Duration
- 1 day
- Format
- ILT
- Level
- Beginner
- Modules
- 6
- Activities
- 47
- Price
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