Methods for Period Over Period (PoP) Analysis in Looker
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Looker Period-over-Period analysis: A flexible approach
Period over Period (PoP) analysis is a cornerstone of understanding business trends, identifying growth areas,...
Why can't I access chat?
Knowledge DropLast tested: April 2021If you don't see the chat option in the Help Menu:Permissions: Anyone wit...
Chart Config Editor: Compare current value to mean, or other series values!
Starting in Looker 25.0, the Chart Config Editor now lets you compare values to the mean of the series, or to ...
Quick Tips and Tricks for Studio in Looker
Hey Looker Users, I’m Chrissie, a Developer Relations Engineer at Looker. If you’re a Looker user who wants to...
Creating a dependency wheel chart with the Chart Config Editor
Hey Good Lookers! Starting in 24.20, you can use the Chart Config Editor to create a dependency wheel visualiz...
Creating an item chart with the Chart Config Editor
Hey Good Lookers! Starting in 24.20, the Chart Config Editor now supports creating item charts! An item chart ...
New codelab: Connecting to GitHub from a Looker (Google Cloud core) Private Service Connect instance
The following codelab walks you through how to perform a southbound HTTPS connection to GitHub using an intern...
Announcing a New Primer: LookML for SQL Experts
In the 40+ years that relational databases have been around, Structured Query Language (SQL) has remained the ...
Using Looker’s SQL Generator
With Looker, you use LookML to model your database both in a structured and reusable way, and in a way that go...
Creating a Venn diagram with the Chart Config Editor
Starting in 24.14, the Chart Config Editor now supports Venn diagrams! Each circle is represented by a yesno d...
Managing Schedules and Alerts in Looker
Mike DeAngelo, Developer Relations Engineer Looker’s “Scheduled Plan” facility can be used to automatically ru...
Creating a Sankey chart with the Chart Config Editor
Starting in Looker 24.14, the Chart Config Editor now supports Sankey charts! Sankey charts are great for show...
Looker Studio: Creating percent of row fields
A common goal in Looker Studio reports is to create a field that displays the percentage of the current data v...
How To Create a Dashboard Filter Through the API
Knowledge Drop Last tested: Mar 30, 2020 The good news: creating the filter is very easy! The bad news: applyi...
Looker Studio: How to add more than 10 AND/OR filters to a chart
Have you ever needed to add more than 10 OR clauses while creating a filter on a chart? Our latest Solutions ...
Creating a treemap visualization with the Chart Config Editor
Hey folks! With another release comes another update to the Chart Config Editor. In 24.10, you can now create ...
Looker Studio: Creating specific time and date buckets with GA data
Say that you have event data in Google Analytics. You want to create specific buckets to display event counts ...
Creating a streamgraph visualization with the Chart Config Editor
Hey Good Lookers! Sam here with another new visualization type to show off. The Chart Config Editor is the gif...
How do I track who deleted a scheduled plan?
If a Looker user deletes a scheduled plan, you can still find evidence of the deletion in the Event Attribute ...
How do I troubleshoot 401 errors on Looker API calls? (Troubleshooting API authentication)
Review: API AuthenticationWhy do 401 errors happen?1. You did not hit the login endpoint or go through the API...
Creating a solid gauge chart with the Chart Config Editor
Hey Good Lookers! I wanted to share another cool use case for the Chart Config Editor. This time, we're showin...
Creating a bullet chart with the Chart Config Editor
Hey everyone! The Chart Config Editor launched in Looker 24.0, and it opens up some pretty cool new use cases....
Installing the Looker API Explorer on a Looker (Google Cloud core) instance on a private IP network
Note: Installing Looker Marketplace content directly on a Looker (Google Cloud core) instance on a private IP ...
New Looker cookbook: Getting the most out of derived tables in Looker
Hello everyone! I’m a technical writer on the Cloud BI team and a longtime Looker enthusiast. We’re experiment...
Can you embed a Looker iframe in PowerPoint / Google Slides?
Knowledge DropLast tested: Sep 8, 2020 Looking for a solution to export a dashboard of visualizations to a Goo...
Can I use existing tables or PDTs with the aggregate awareness feature?
Knowledge DropLast tested: Jun 3, 2020 No, the Aggregate Awareness feature new to 7.8 must be used with Looker...
Query task [hash] results not found in cache
Knowledge DropLast tested: Aug 19, 2021 This error will happen on some merged result query runs, usually as a ...
Exporting Data to Google Sheets
Looker will not be updating this content, nor guarantees that everything is up-to-date. You can export data di...
The PDT Reaper
Knowledge DropLast tested: Dec 12, 2019The reaper is the process in Looker that is responsible for dropping no...
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