Tableau Vs Looker - Which Dashboard Tool Is Best? -Modern Data Infrastructure

There are lots of great BI and dashboarding tools out there.

Looker and Tableau are both great options?

But when we compare Looker Vs Tableau, which one is best for your data team.

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0:00 Intro
1:22 Why Looker Starting Gaining Traction
3:19 Tableau Vs Looker Cost
6:50 Tableau Vs Looker Overview
7:40 Tableau Vs Looker Aesthetic
8:36 Lookers View On Dashboards
8:48 Looker Vs Tableau Features
8:50 LookML
11:33 Looker Vs Tableau - Clouds
12:45 Tableau Prep
13:59 Tableau Vs Looker Actions
16:29 My Recommendation On Tableau Vs Looker

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[Manishss]

Looker runs as a SQL statement on runtime which makes defining custom dimensions and metrics within looker very expensive. Especially if you create reporting views as views it is very time consuming and costly. Also doing joins within looker with greatly increase cost. However data sharing capability of Looker and limiting view functionality for a user I really liked. Since looker doesnt have its semantic layer I think proper data strategy is required if we are to implement looker

[ShashankData]

The callout of Tableau lacking very basic SDLC features (at least Tableau cloud has some semblance of version control) captures one of the core problems tableau has in reference to any wide-spread adoption in an organization. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had a stakeholder say one metric on one dashboard doesn’t match supposedly the same metric on another dashboard. Tableau expects that to all be done at the database level which I believe disempowers a lot of BI and Data Analyst people in orgs. Great video!

[rudroroy]

Now this comparison does not hold anymore, Looker is now Google Looker Studio the visualization tool and GCP Looker BI

[joshbickmeyer]

Would love to see you do a video with Power BI and Qlick included as they are also very popular data viz tools.

[horoshuhin]

I Like these "this tool VS that tool" videos. they clear up a lot of questions about the tools I have. although miss those hands-on tutorials too. thank you.

[wrangledata]

Very cool insight on how Tableau doesn't really have a way to manage calculations/parameters or whatever other variables you create across different dashboards.

[zainabbriouga]

POV: Power BI is just as useful and also cheap. and free for desktop version

[therendra]

Hi, i am new to DA, i have 400k data, 250mb, can tablue handle this? Looker limited to 100mb

[alexischicoine]

For sure you don't want to do complex things in tableau prep but sometimes you just need a few quick steps and to bring in some small data from say an excel file for a very specific and small report that probably won't live that long or would be pretty easy to redo if you change tools later. The lower skill ceiling means a regular analyst can do this.

As for self serve I'd say forget it an average business user won't be doing data prep no matter the tool. They might be able to build a basic view/graph if you provide them with a clean and simple source though. Sometimes you can't have a dashboard for every specific need and they can do simple views in a few clicks for an ad hoc need.

[RS-soqs]

Thanks for the vid! Any plans in the pipeline / timeline to get a hold of Palantir Foundry and offer your thoughts?

[yukithejapanese]

Looker is awesome but i think it will be taken over other cheaper alternatives eventually that have very similar features. It's too expensive for most organizations!!!

[justarandomdude]

What turns me off about looker is that I can't use it without paying for it, even to start learning it! Or is there a way to use it for free?

[shyama]

if you end up thinking Tableau is cheaper than Looker, then Data Studio might be the first thing you have to try out and then choose Tableau if it falls short for some use case.

[yasinnabi]

woww this video is a wonderful video and pushed me to some other videos in your channel. great content. thanks for uploads., ,,,

[caseypdx]

Google Data Studio is a good option as far as being able to build a "durable" data set to be used from dashboard to dashboard

[marisaquin]

It's great to look at the engineering differences of the two, I think a larger point that wasn't made when choosing between the two is the comfortability of creating reports and dashboards of your user base. I've only used Looker so I am biased, but I truly believe the goal of Looker is democratizing data. You are building a way for users to repeatedly create something on the same constructed data without them needing to know SQL, LookML, or the underlying table construction. I agree, Tableau seems great for your small pool of users that are comfortable building something on the go, with basic SQL knowledge or basic knowledge of database connection - but what about the users who are interested in reporting with none of this knowledge?

[Rick-Blaine]

Loved the comparison and analysis. I need to include Power BI in BI tool survey and I was disappointed that I couldn't find a video by you analyzing it.

[murraystaff]

Are there other BI tools that have that similar “component”/repeatability approach? Agree that creating a metric in a tableau dash and then having to rebuild from scratch in another dashboard is not ideal.

[bennguyen]

Aside from Looker and Tableau.. do you have any thoughts on other data visualization tools? When one might be preferred over another?

For example, Grafana, Plotly / Dash, GraphQL, matplotlib, etc?

[nicky_rads]

Nice overview of both products. Lots of competition within the BI/data viz space (PowerBI, Qlik).