When Our Customers Win, We Win
When Our Customers Win, We Win(And This Time We Actually Did Win)Looker is very thankful to have won several Best of 2015 Awards from G2 Crowd, a website that aggregates reviews from real business...
View ArticleData Analysis with Spark SQL
We’re excited to announce Looker’s support for Spark SQL. Since Looker enables data exploration and transformation by querying data where it lives - analytics directly benefits from Spark’s powerful...
View ArticleElevating the Power Vertica to the Cloud: Looker for Vertica OnDemand
Looker is excited to support HPE Vertica OnDemand, HPE’s cloud deployment option for their high performing data warehouse. The value of Looker’s data platform has already been proven for many HPE...
View ArticleUS Budget 2017 Navigator
I found a CSV of the proposed United States budget. I uploaded it directly into BigQuery and built a small model (See it on Github).Clicking on counts will show you what is in the budgetClicking on the...
View ArticleHow to Accurately Analyze User Engagement Across Multiple Sources
Most businesses face questions about company performance and customer behavior. How well did our product launch go last week? Are customers using our new features the way we intended? How can I take...
View ArticleAffinity Analysis for Recommendation Engines
Lots of businesses make good use of recommendation engines based on affinity analysis to improve their offering. Let’s look at three examples before diving into what often can seem like black...
View ArticleMarketing Attribution Made Easy with Centralized Data
Arguably the most important measurement problem for marketing departments is campaign attribution or understanding which marketing campaigns and activities drive pipeline and revenue. I have help build...
View ArticleWhy we created the Lookerbot for Slack
At Looker, we tried out Slack about a year ago and knew almost immediately that it was for us. Our email was already (and still is) overflowing with giphy images and emoji reactions. Slack felt like...
View ArticleBuild Complex Analysis In Just an Hour or So with IBM + Looker
We’re incredibly excited to announce our partnership with IBM. We worked closely with the IBM Cloud Data Services group to ensure that Looker can be flexibly deployed in Bluemix or on premises to...
View ArticleFun with Data - Hacking Hacker News
Hacking Hacker NewsLast year, Google’s Felipe Hoffa uploaded complete data about Hacker News’ posts to Google’s BigQuery data engine. BigQuery is a giant clustered SQL engine in the cloud that can...
View ArticleHow We Turn Customer Data into Revenue
The question I often hear from customers is…“How does centralizing all my data turn into actionable, tangible business value?”Put more simply…“How is centralizing my data going to keep customers around...
View ArticleEmpowering Yieldify with Data: What has Looker done for us?
I recently stumbled upon Justin Kan’s old post The First Time I Used Programming at Work.This post reminded me of my time at Rangespan - where my colleague and friend, Charles Dupont, wrote an...
View ArticleSegment Sources & Looker Blocks
Looker is proud to be a launch partner for Sources, Segment’s new offering for pulling data from channels important to your business. From CRM data, to help desk tickets, payments and more, Segment can...
View ArticleLooker and Auditing Internal Salesforce Data
At Looker we combine data from many disparate sources, including our Salesforce data, to drive internal operations and audit our sales workflow against multiple streams of information. However, the...
View ArticleIntroducing Looker Office Hours
Looker Office HoursIn college, some of my most valuable learning experiences came from professor Office Hours.That free, open time to meet with your mentor, talk about your course, collaboratively work...
View ArticleAccelerating Customer Expansion with Data
This is part 2 of my blog post on using data to improve Customer Success and Account Management. The formula as a Customer Success Manager in SAAS is really quite simple.Reduce Churn; Drive More...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Looker
Also check out a new Q&A that Daniel did with Dataconomy talking about what it means to be a data evangelist and why it’s so important.Last month, I started as Looker’s Chief Data Evangelist. But I...
View ArticleIs It Worth Centralizing My Data?
At Looker, we talk to a lot of companies about their data. One of the most common conversations we have is around centralizing data. We’re big advocates of getting all the data you care about in one...
View ArticleData Apps to Launch Us Into Orbit
Data Apps to Launch Us Into OrbitFrom the beginning of Looker, reusability has been at the core of our product philosophy. It started with reusability around SQL queries, and today we are targeting...
View ArticleMeet Looker Data Apps: One Giant Step Towards Being Data-Driven
Today, we announced Looker Data Apps. Applications that sit on top of the Looker Data Platform and make Looker the central place where everyone in your company can access, explore and understand the...
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