Rather Dashing Dashboards
Rather Dashing DashboardsLooker dashboards are a key tool for telling interesting stories with data. Recently, we took the opportunity to make dashboards easier to visually consume by making a few...
View ArticleYou're Not Normal
One of the trickiest things about being human is that you only get to see the world from one perspective. This is relevant not just for the reasons that philosopherslove toponder, but also because it...
View Article3 Key Considerations for Embedded Analytics
You’ve built a great product that resonates with the market. Your customers are enthusiastic, and word of mouth is overwhelmingly positive.The in-house picture is cloudier. Your end users can’t run...
View ArticleCatching the Third Wave
Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins released her annual Internet Trends report this morning and I thought about going surfing for sure (I don’t surf - but maybe now’s the time..?). If you don’t know her,...
View ArticleA Confession
Hi. My name is Daniel, and I love SQL. Ever since I first started learning how to write queries on MySQL a decade ago, I’ve loved the discipline that SQL imposed on me. It forced me to think through my...
View ArticleUnlocking Census Voting Data with Looker and BigQuery
Government-collected datasets contain a wealth of information about our world—everything from which roads have the most potholes to who votes. And in recent years, governments and other public agencies...
View ArticleFlexible Visualization Editing
For years, Looker has been providing the best interface for querying your data.Today, Looker is excited to be releasing an improved interface. Ideal for editing charts, and creating beautiful...
View ArticleLooker + Stitch: Combine and derive immediate value from all your disparate data
Looker is excited to be a launch partner for Stitch (formerly RJMetrics Pipeline).A fully managed service, Stitch allows you to extract data from various sources and load it into a central warehouse...
View ArticleForrester Vendor Landscape - Insights Platform
Every day, we work with innovative companies that are integrating data into their operations in ways that are transforming their business both competitively and culturally. So it’s easy for us to...
View ArticleBuilding A Census Data Application In No Time Flat
If anyone is wondering what kind of interactive data applications you can build when you have a powerful data platform like Looker available, today we’ve got a great, easy example.Today we’re launching...
View ArticleThe ROI of Looker, Part 1: Scaling and Cost-Savings
We have a saying here at Looker: “We’re in the business of getting people promoted”.By that, we don’t only mean getting the person who buys Looker promoted for making a great decision. We mean getting...
View ArticleCampaign to Cash Looker Block - Monitor and Measure your Marketing Investments
From Google Analytics to Marketo to Salesforce, modern marketing organizations utilize multiple tools to execute and track campaigns. With so many different data sources, it can be difficult to get a...
View ArticleBigQuery Standard SQL + Looker
Last year, we were excited to announce our support for Google BigQuery. At Looker, we love learning about advancements in database technology because our architecture fundamentally depends on it. The...
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Parse.ly recently introduced their Data Pipeline product. Building on the analytics infrastructure expertise they’ve developed by processing over 50 billion user events per month, Parse.ly is now...
View ArticleIntroducing Looker 4
We are so excited to introduce Looker 4, fulfilling our vision of Looker being a complete data platform. It’s a major step forward.With Looker 4, you not only have an amazing data exploration tool, but...
View ArticleHow to chat with Data
Big news, the Lookerbot - our chatbot - is live in Slack’s App Directory. We launched the Lookerbot in April and have watched it spread like wildfire among our customers. Since we last wrote about our...
View ArticleSegment + BigQuery Launch
We’re excited to be a launch partner for Segment’s support for Google BigQuery. Both technologies have proven to be incredibly powerful for our customers, and the joint Looker-Segment-BigQuery solution...
View ArticleHow Data Actions make our Jobs Easier
As I’ve previously written, the ability to analyze our Salesforce.com data with Looker was an absolute game-changer for our Sales Development department. So much so that our entire workflow now...
View ArticleMy Bets for 2017
2016 was an amazing year for data and, incidentally, also for Looker. I’m excited to see what 2017 has in store. I’ve been known to place the occasional wager, so, based on everything we saw in 2016,...
View ArticleOperationalize Your Data with Looker Data Actions and Segment
Leveraging Segment Sources in your centralized data warehouse provides a complete view of each customer. Combining customer event data from mobile and web with data from cloud sources like Salesforce,...
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