Technical deep dive on Looker: The enterprise BI solution for Google Cloud

Thousands of users accessing petabytes of data on a daily basis — a challenging proposition, without a doubt, but Looker makes it possible. Beyond just accessing data though, Looker’s platform transforms your company’s relationship with data.

Go under the hood of Looker to see how LookML empowers developers to take advantage of powerful data warehouses like BigQuery and ultimately enhance the workflows of end users. Dive into LookML’s ability to use Google Cloud Functions and Search API to enhance dashboards, leverage BQML within Looker’s modeling layer to give users access to forecasts, tie in BigQuery’s public datasets to add richness to analysis, and show off LookML’s ability to handle nested tables for faster performance on transaction analysis all through a complete end to end demo.

Speaker: Olivia Morgan

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[nidarshann]

Great overview of Looker showcasing real-world use-cases. Looker is beginning to look like a classic Google product with focus on simplicity for 70% basic user segment, and (deep) technicality for 30% advanced user segment ...

[jimbattenberg]

Excellent demo. Great timing and pace along with well summarized benefits for both developers and business audiences.

[sem]

thanks for video! It was really usefull for me as a beginner with Looker

[rudroroy]

does looker has any native lightweight ETL or transformation tool/component like power query in power bi or tableau prep in tableau?

[fundou]

This turned out to be basic dashboard building rather than a technical deep dive (into the architecture of Looker, I presumed).

[SuperSuveer]

Can we connect looker to SAP Hana 2.0 hosted on GCP? Are there any special connector or documentation around that available?

[immacolataprencipe]

The interface looks like 15 years old software (at least), not very intuitive, not even comparable with Tableau or Power BI

[aztmln]

I was hoping this would be a “deep dive” and was disappointed this was very superficial in that regard. Also, I wish you made looker more affordable for small businesses. Domo is chipping away at this segment big time