Viewing Data |
Building Tools |
Developing Models |
Get started browsing in Looker, including basic navigation, seeing lists of saved reports, and searching for saved reports. In Looker, dashboards are saved into folders called “Spaces”.
In addition to dashboards, individual tables and charts are called "Looks," which you can see in this video.
Get more details in our documentation about finding content, viewing dashboards, viewing looks, or even how to organize with spaces.
Learn how to sort the data in your report and how to add column totals.
Learn how to pivot data in your report and how to add row totals. "Pivoting" is a way to take rows and turn them into columns, which can make information much easier to read in some cases.
Get more details about filtering in our filtering data playlist, learn additional exploration features in our advanced exploring playlist, or learn about creating graphs and visualizations.
Learn about two other ways to create dashboards in our creating dashboards playlist.
Learn about other dashboard features in our editing dashboards playlist.
Understanding your end-user's experience of exploring data will make it much easier to understand the impact of your data model.
So, if you haven’t already, check out our Building Tools Guide to learn this first.
If you're not already familiar with SQL it's a good idea to learn the basics before tackling LookML. Focus on selecting data and how to join.
Many resources are available online. Two free options we like are Khan Academy and SQLzoo.
Check out our free, interactive training course getting started with LookML.
You will be able to request a login to learn.looker.com, a sandbox environment for learning LookML, in the beginning of this course.
Prefer reading documentation? Check out our LookML tutorials or LookML reference.
If you need to complete set up before trying LookML, and Looker is hosting your instance, start with our development process playlist.
Or, if your company is hosting the instance, start with our on-premise installation steps.