Looker Course Curriculum

Looker training concepts, labs, projects, use-cases, and more have been designed & developed carefully by our data visualization professionals to create a hurdle-free path for your next job. Below listed are the modules that you are going to come across in this Looker online Training.

Looker is a pioneering platform in the business intelligence world and supports organizations in developing powerful yet easy-to-understand visualizations. It allows users to build and share interactive and dynamic dashboards. This chapter of our looker online training will introduce you to the capabilities of a looker and makes you familiar with its UI, components, etc.

Concepts:

  • What is Looker?
  • Looker User Interface
  • Looker Components

This section of our looker course deals with the core analytical concepts such as dimensions, measures, aggregation, filters, pivoting and more.

Concepts:

  • Dimensions in Looker
  • Measures in Looker
  • Data Aggregation
  • Using dimensions and measures
  • Filter dimensions
  • Pivoting data in Looker
  •  Pivots to group & restructure data

In Looker, table calculations simplify the process to create ad hoc metrics and they are similar to Excel formulas. Using table calculations it is easier to perform logical, mathematical data-based, and lexical calculations. Looker formulas are also called Looker expressions and in this chapter of our Google Looker training, we are going to explore different table calculations using live scenarios.

Concepts:

  • Table calculations fundamentals
  • Types of table calculations
  • Offset calculations & types
  • Writing offset calculations

Looks are saved visualizations and can be created in the explore section of a looker. Looks are majorly used to understand and analyze data. Looker dashboards allow you to place graphs or tables on a page and it gives you a quick view of the overall content. This section of Google LookML training deals with the end-to-end concepts of looks and dashboards. 

Concepts:

  • Looks Overview
  • Creating Looks
  • Applying Filters to Looks
  • Looks options
  • Data delivery from Looks
  • Building & editing Dashboards
  • Types of Dashboards
  • Dashboard filtering
  • Files and folders in Dashboards
  • Data delivery from Dashboards
  • Dashboard settings

Visualization is a technique to create images, animations, diagrams, etc, to easily convey a message to the users. Looker supports multiple visualizations and helps users understand valuable data insights. This chapter of our Google Looker training helps you explore and build visualizations. 

Concepts:

  • Table Visualizations
  • Column chart
  • Line Chart,  Area Chart, Pie Chart
  • Donut Multiples
  • Table Legacy visualization
  • Scatterplot Visualizations
  • Bar charts
  • Customized Visualizations

Looker is a pioneering platform in the business intelligence world and supports organizations in developing powerful yet easy-to-understand visualizations. It allows users to build and share interactive and dynamic dashboards. This chapter of our looker online training will introduce you to the capabilities of a looker and makes you familiar with its UI, components, etc.

Concepts:

  • What is Looker?
  • Looker User Interface
  • Looker Components

This section of our looker course deals with the core analytical concepts such as dimensions, measures, aggregation, filters, pivoting and more.

Concepts:

  • Dimensions in Looker
  • Measures in Looker
  • Data Aggregation
  • Using dimensions and measures
  • Filter dimensions
  • Pivoting data in Looker
  •  Pivots to group & restructure data

In Looker, table calculations simplify the process to create ad hoc metrics and they are similar to Excel formulas. Using table calculations it is easier to perform logical, mathematical data-based, and lexical calculations. Looker formulas are also called Looker expressions and in this chapter of our Google Looker training, we are going to explore different table calculations using live scenarios.

Concepts:

  • Table calculations fundamentals
  • Types of table calculations
  • Offset calculations & types
  • Writing offset calculations

Looks are saved visualizations and can be created in the explore section of a looker. Looks are majorly used to understand and analyze data. Looker dashboards allow you to place graphs or tables on a page and it gives you a quick view of the overall content. This section of Google LookML training deals with the end-to-end concepts of looks and dashboards. 

Concepts:

  • Looks Overview
  • Creating Looks
  • Applying Filters to Looks
  • Looks options
  • Data delivery from Looks
  • Building & editing Dashboards
  • Types of Dashboards
  • Dashboard filtering
  • Files and folders in Dashboards
  • Data delivery from Dashboards
  • Dashboard settings

Visualization is a technique to create images, animations, diagrams, etc, to easily convey a message to the users. Looker supports multiple visualizations and helps users understand valuable data insights. This chapter of our Google Looker training helps you explore and build visualizations. 

Concepts:

  • Table Visualizations
  • Column chart
  • Line Chart,  Area Chart, Pie Chart
  • Donut Multiples
  • Table Legacy visualization
  • Scatterplot Visualizations
  • Bar charts
  • Customized Visualizations

Looker generally stores content in folders and users can organize the content in the folders using subfolders. Accessibility to looker folders and subfolders is provided from the access levels. This chapter of the google looker certification course helps you understand how to manage content in Looker and permission levels in Looker.

Concepts:

  • Content Management fundamentals
  • Organizing & managing access
  • Folder access levels
  • Folder creation & deletion

LookML is a language for defining aggregations, calculations, data relationships, and dimensions in a database. Looker uses LookML to write SQL queries against a specific database. This section of looker certification training covers the overall concepts of Looker modeling query language.

Concepts:

  • LookML environment
  • Elements of LookML
  • Dimension and Measure Fields
  • Dimension Types
  • Create Folders, dimensions, measures, 
  • Add filters in LookML
  • LookML Parameters & types
  • Commenting in LookML
  • Model creation in LookML

Apart from performing general queries on a specific database LookML also performs some extended operations. Following are the advanced LookML concepts covered in this section.

Concepts:

  • Data groups in LookML
  • LookML reference
  • Advanced filters
  • Creating and managing Git branches
  • Committing & un-committing changes

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Looker Online Training Objectives

By the end of this Google LookML training online you will be able to:

  • Gain a firm understanding of the Looker platform
  • Work with Table Calculations
  • Understand different dimension types
  • Build and share interactive visualizations & dashboards
  • Learn to build and edit looks in Looker
  • Learn types of dimensions & custom dimension
  • Perform basic to advanced LookML operations
  • Able to leverage Looker's analytics platform
  • Gain confidence to work on any Looker Project

This Looker certification training has been designed in a way to impart the learners with all the modern in-demand data visualization & analytics skills and to transform them into job-ready professionals. Upon the completion of this Looker course, you will be in a position to explore, share, and visualize organizational data & present them to the users to make better business decisions.

During this Looker course online you will gain mastery in performing various analytics operations on the Looker platform which include, working with looker instances, exploring data, table calculations, basic to advanced LookML operations, building and sharing dashboards, and visualizations, and a lot more.

No, prior knowledge is required to enroll in this Looker course. Having a basic understanding of the cloud database and business intelligence working process would be an added advantage!

Anyone who works closely with data and analytics can take up this course. This Looker training is also best suitable for BI aspirants who wish to start their careers on the Looker platform.

Looker is a powerful business intelligence & data analytics platform used by thousands of organizations worldwide. Using Looker businesses can build visualizations from the vast volumes of data and make more informed and reliable business decisions.

Looker platform comes with advanced capabilities such as user-friendly workflows, dashboard collaboration, automatic distribution of reports, browser-based functionality, embedded analytics, etc.

Moreover, the Looker platform is highly flexible and easily deployable on all cloud & on-prem platforms. The collaboration of Looker and Google cloud has made it a more powerful tool and the adoption rate has seen massive growth worldwide.

Looker Certification

Looker validates candidates' expertise in using the looker platform through the following certification assessment.
Exam Name: Looker LookML Developer certification exam

Getting certified in Looker demonstrates your expertise in working with data sets, building interactive visualizations, working with LookML, building robust models, defining cache policies, and knowledge of areas like SQL Runner, Looker IDE, & LookML Validator.

The importance of data & analytics has grown tremendously and the same is the case with BI professionals. Organizations are looking to hire candidates with Looker certification to leverage the Looker platform and Analytics. Certification adds great weightage to your resume and presents you with good career opportunities.

Yes, once you finish your Looker training you will receive an electronic course completion certificate from Techsolidiy. You can share this certificate on social media platforms to showcase your BI & analytics with employers. The certificate issued by TechSolidty adds value to your resume and demonstrates you as a well-trained candidate.

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Looker Projects

To enhance our learners' ability in understanding the real-time working process of the Looker platform and to inject them with the knowledge & confidence required to work on their next projects, we have included 2 live projects in this training.

Looker Online Course Reviews

Looker Certification Training FAQ's

Yes, Techsolidty offers you two types of Discounts: one is group discount and the other is referral discount.
Yes, In order to provide you the financial flexibility, we provide you the chance to pay the course fee in two installments.
Due to any reasons, you would like to cancel your registration after paying the fee, you should intimate the same to us within the first two classes. The refund amount will be processed within 30 days from the requested date.
To meet the customer expectations we provide multiple types of training which include, Live instructor-led training, Self-paced training, blended training, classroom training, corporate training, etc.
Yes, at Techsolidity all the training courses consist of a minimum of two projects to offer the candidates real-time work understanding!