Looker + Workplace: A smarter, faster, and more powerful way to collaborate...
Looker and Workplace by Facebook share the belief that people can achieve more by working together. That’s why Looker is excited to announce our new integration with Workplace.Where teamwork comes to...
View ArticleWomen of Data: Oana Tararache, Data Team Tech Lead at Namely
Oana Tararache is the Data Team Tech Lead at Namely. She received her Master in Computer Science from Columbia University and is a mother to three young boys (including twins).Hi Oana, thanks for...
View ArticleThe Marketer’s Guide to Building a Reporting Stack that Drives Growth
Many companies are unsure about the exact effect of their marketing.As a result, they view marketing more as a cost center than a revenue center and tend to underinvest. This perspective restricts...
View ArticleBusinesses create more impact with more efficient data science workflows
Looker is all about helping businesses get more value through the smarter use of data. In a lot of cases, that’s about putting the right data in the right decision-maker’s hands at the right time.But...
View ArticleI can see your Halo: Player Behavior and Map Metrics in Halo 5: Guardians
I’ve been playing Halo for a really, really long time.I started with Halo: Combat Evolved, then Halo 2, but things really clicked when I started playing Halo 3 online. I never reached Rank 50, but I’ve...
View ArticleWhy centralized data access is key for your organization becoming 'GDPR ready'
After the better part of two years of preparation, debate and conjecture across the technology industry, today, the general data protection regulation (GDPR) is finally upon us.In the past, the impact...
View ArticleWomen of Data: Liz Hartmann, Data Analytics Lead at Segment
Liz Hartmann is the Data Analytics Lead at Segment. She was born and raised on the East Coast but has been living in California since graduating from Cornell University.Liz previously worked at...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Looker User Guide: Your resource for getting the most out of...
Whether you are brand new to Looker, or an expert in LookML, Looker now has a single destination to find all of the content, training and resources you need...the Looker User Guide!Here is a breakdown...
View ArticleWomen of Data: Cara Baestlein, Data Scientist at Snowplow
Cara Baestlein is a Data Scientist at London-based Snowplow Analytics. Before getting her MSc in Economics from University College London, Cara received her undergraduate degree from Edinburgh...
View ArticleAccessible Data Science with BigQuery Machine Learning + Looker
At Google Cloud Next ‘18 today, Google took a step toward more accessible machine learning with the announcement of a new feature for Google BigQuery called BigQuery Machine Learning (BQML). BQML is a...
View ArticleWomen of Data: Anicia Santos, Sales Engineering Manager at Looker
We are very excited to introduce our very own Anicia Santos as the next member of the Women of Data series.Anicia spent the first ten years of her life on the island of Saipan, and then moved to...
View ArticleAnnouncing Women of Data and the Data of Women
I love watching the change that happens in companies when everyone discovers how easy it is to access and understand their business data. And it’s not just because these people can now make better...
View ArticleWomen of Data: Interview with Amy Anthony, Director of Data Operations at...
This month we are excited to launch Looker’s Women of Data interview series, which spotlights women leaders in the data field and shares their stories and advice.We are thrilled to kick things off with...
View ArticleData of Women: Education and Literacy Around the World
In the spirit of International Women’s Day, we wanted to learn more about how women around the world are being prepared for future opportunities.To learn more about this, we turned to the World Bank’s...
View ArticleWomen of Data: Interview with Margaret Rosas, Looker’s Director of the...
This week, we are very excited to share the perspective of Looker’s very own Margaret Rosas. Since joining Looker over five years ago, Margaret has worn many hats: from release manager to chat analyst...
View Article6 ways to integrate a data strategy into your product workflow
Even though most product and engineering organizations today are collecting tons of data, most only use a fraction of what is available. This is often due to competing priorities or lack of...
View ArticleWomen of Data: Mico Yuk, Co-Founder of BI Brainz and the Analytics on Fire...
This week, we were very excited to learn from speaker, author, and data visualization expert, Mico Yuk. An active proponent of humanizing analytics, Mico is the Co-Founder of BI Brianz and co-host of...
View ArticleLooker Announces Support for Oracle’s New Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud
Last week, Oracle announced the General Availability of Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud (ADWC), which was introduced during the Keynote Speech at Oracle OpenWorld.Looker has spent the past year working...
View ArticleWomen of Data: Rachel Bradley-Haas, Sr Manager of Business Analytics & Data...
We were very excited this week to sit down with Rachel Bradley-Hass. Rachel is the Senior Manager of Business Analytics & Data Engineering at Heroku. Prior to joining Heroku, Rachel worked at Cisco...
View ArticleAnnouncing Looker Support for Dremio
Looker is excited to announce our support for Dremio as a data source with Dremio 2.0, which was announced on Wednesday, April 25.Dremio is a self-service data platform that enables high performance...
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