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Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

By : Khrystyna Grynko
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Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

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By: Khrystyna Grynko

Overview of this book

Looker is a data analytics and business intelligence platform that allows organizations to explore, analyze, and visualize their data. It provides tools for data modeling, exploration, and visualization, enabling you to gain insights from your data to make informed business decisions. You’ll start with the basics, from setting up your Looker environments to configuring views and models using LookML. As you progress, you’ll delve into more advanced topics, such as navigating data in Explore, tailoring dashboards to your needs, and adding dynamic elements for interactivity. Along the way, you'll gain invaluable troubleshooting skills to tackle common issues and optimize your Looker usage, ensuring a smooth and seamless experience. Furthermore, the book extends your understanding beyond the basics, equipping you with the knowledge you need to develop Looker applications and seamlessly integrate them with other tools and applications. You'll also explore advanced techniques for harnessing Looker's full potential, empowering you to establish data-driven decision-making and innovation within your organization. By the end of this BI book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how to use Looker to find important information, make tasks easier, and derive important insights.
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Custom fields

If the existing dimensions and measures are not enough for Explore users (Standard users/Creators), they can easily create their custom fields.

Note that custom fields offer temporary, Explore-specific calculations with limited reusability, while LookML provides permanent, model-wide definitions for reusable and governed metrics.

There are multiple ways to create custom fields , and we will go through them in this section. We’ll continue working in the Orders and Users Explore.

If necessary, you can always prevent users from creating custom fields in Explores (creating custom fields requires the "create_custom_fields" permission assigned by your Looker admin).

How to do it...

To create a custom field, let’s do the following:

  1. Click on the Custom Field section on the left of the Explore environment.
  2. Click +Add, and you will see three available options – Custom Dimension, Custom Measure, and Table Calculation. Custom...
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