Course Overview
This course empowers you to develop scalable, performant LookML (Looker Modeling Language) models that provide your business users with the standardized, ready-to-use data that they need to answer their questions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to start building and maintaining LookML models to curate and manage data in your organization’s Looker instance.
Course Objectives
- Define LookML basic terms and building blocks
- Model new dimensions and measures using LookML
- 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 that do not yet exist in the underlying database.
- Articulate how caching works in Looker and how developers can use datagroups to manage caching policies.
Who Should Attend?
Data developers who are responsible for data curation and management within their organizations. Data analysts interested in learning how data developers use LookML to curate and manage data in their organization’s Looker instance.
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Agenda
- Introducing Looker and LookML
- Data Modeling Using LookML
- Modeling Explores for Your Users
- Working with Derived Tables
- Course Resources