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Hey Good Looker!
Welcome to the Looker Community 
. Feels good to be home, right?
This thread is a space for you to share a little more about who you are and all the cool data-related things you are up to! Some questions you could answer to get started are below, but you’re welcome to add anything you’d like to your introduction:
- What is your name?
- What is your job title and industry?
- How long have you used Looker?
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries?
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart?
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with?
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include…
If everyone does this, scrolling through this thread will literally be like scrolling through the entire Looker Community. How cool would that be?
(there is an old Intros post from the old community, that we will merge with this one!)
- What is your name? Diego Frade
- What is your job title and industry? Data Analyst
- How long have you used Looker? 2 years
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? Leading 🙂
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? LookML
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include…I am from Mexico
- What is your name? Brian LaFaille
- What is your job title and industry? Looker Lead - Customer Success Programs
- How long have you used Looker? 7 years
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? 100% Trailing -- it’s the only way my brain works.
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Using Looker for Customer Success & Account Management teams.
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include… When the pandemic is over I’m planning to travel to at least two new countries the next year. It’s been far too long since we’ve all been able to travel!
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Hey Good Looker!
Welcome to the Looker Community . Feels good to be home, right?
This thread is a space for you to share a little more about who you are and all the cool data-related things you are up to! Some questions you could answer to get started are below, but you’re welcome to add anything you’d like to your introduction:
- What is your name?
- What is your job title and industry?
- How long have you used Looker?
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries?
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart?
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with?
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include…
If everyone does this, scrolling through this thread will literally be like scrolling through the entire Looker Community. How cool would that be?
(there is an old Intros post from the old community, that we will merge with this one!
- What is your name? Blake Eitniear
- What is your job title and industry? SIEM Analyst / Healthcare
- How long have you used Looker? just over 24 hours
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? gotta go with trailing,
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? : ZERO so far, but it’s early!
- What is your name?Rohit Cherian
- What is your job title and industry?Retail
- How long have you used Looker? 6months
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? Do I have to answer..fine trailing.lol...have written a few LookML queries in my 6 months..looking to improve my skills
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart?
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Retail related Looker KPI’s and building Looks
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include…
- What is your name? Himanshu Gupta
- What is your job title and industry? Product Manager at a PropTech/Fintech startup in London
- How long have you used Looker? I’m new to Looker but have worked with SQL before
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? Trailing (just googled it
) - What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Structuring large datasets
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include…Because of limited engineering resources in our org atm, I might end up writing some SQL/LookML myself
- What is your name? Linden Hyatt
- What is your job title and industry? TBD (new role); Durable Medical Equipment & Billing
- How long have you used Looker? Approx. 1 year
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? Haven’t decided yet, but I’m OCD about keeping consistency (especially in database environments)...so I’m going to follow suit of all those who came before me…hoping that helps us all keep our sanity
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? I LOVE showing information in ways that provide unique insight into what’s REALLY going on. Analyzing large datasets has been an integral part of nearly every job in my career, so I’m pumped to really help each division and executives at the corporate level visualize data that is accurate and easy on the eyeballs!
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include… I’m a n0ob but am also a total nerd when it comes to reporting (my primary rsponsibility in the previous role), so I couldn’t be more excited to work towards LookML certification. Other fun facts about me...
- ‘Slice & Dice’ is my office nickname for my love of love pivot tables
- Recently engaged and to be married this August in Greece
- I have a cocker spaniel, Taki, and he is the cutest pup ever!
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- What is your name? Saritta
- What is your job title and industry? Customer Engineer - Data Analytics
- How long have you used Looker? 0 months
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries?
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart? Bar chart
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? None with Looker
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include… ex - Spotfire Admin, excited to get started with Looker. You had me at Column level security
- What is your name? Rahul Monga
- What is your job title and industry? Business Analyst working in Banking & Financial Services
- How long have you used Looker? Never used
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries?
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart? Value slicing
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Just starting...
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include…Always excited to learn new things
- What is your name? Mohamed-Ali Shiha
- What is your job title and industry? Senior Manager, Business Insights at Vodafone
- How long have you used Looker? not yet
currently using Tableau - Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? LEADING!
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Will come back to answer this shortly
- What is your name? Bengt Soderman
- What is your job title and industry? System administrator telemarketing company Sweden
- How long have you used Looker? Since January 2021
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries?
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart? Column
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Nothing yet.
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include…I don´t have SQL in my version of looker, just the built in functions.
- What is your name? Shawn
- What is your job title and industry? Data Engineer @ Sharethrough (AdTech)
- How long have you used Looker? 6 months!
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? LEADING
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Symmetric aggregation and avoiding fan traps
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include… Self-proclaimed Mario Kart champion ?
- What is your name? Adam Cole
- What is your job title and industry? Integrated Data and Analytics Platform Leadership
- How long have you used Looker? Almost 3 years.
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? Leading. You have to lead with comment characters, so why not commas?
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? SQL development (scripts, jobs, queries, procedures, etc) and LookML.
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include… I love developing in SQL and Looker, but I also enjoy teaching non-technical people to use the Looker platform. When folks have that “a-ha!” moment is great, as they see all the cool things Looker can do.
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- What is your name? Akash Shukla
- What is your job title and industry? BigData & BI Developer
- How long have you used Looker? I am getting started with Looker
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? Proudly Trailing
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart?
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? I’m not a Looker expert yet; my background is in Bigdata and cloud and BI tools are new to me in general.
- What is your name? Chander Kant Sharma
- What is your job title and industry? Data Analyst, Media
- How long have you used Looker? 6 Months and Counting (Loving Looker’s Capabilities)
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? I prefer Leading when reading, but Trailing when writing SQL.
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Data warehousing and Modeling (Snowflake)
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include… I can teach Bhangra steps for a Pizza deal
. Was engaged with Tableau and then Looker happened ! 
- What is your name? Keith Anderson
- What is your job title and industry? Data Analyst @DigitalOcean (IaaS)
- How long have you used Looker? 5+ Years
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? Leading
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Customer Support & Success related data, reporting, metrics, dashboards + a good amount of LookML
- What is your name? Andrei Popovici
- What is your job title and industry? Data Analyst / Insurtech
- How long have you used Looker? Less than 1 year
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries? Trailing
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Not expert yet
- What is your name? Brent Carter
- What is your job title and industry? Owner, Starting Strength Dallas
- How long have you used Looker? 1 month
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries?
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart? very much a SQL newb, still learning
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? n/a
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include… I am a barbell coach and gym owner trying to get better BI using this product. I believe it is already embedded into my member management software Pike13 but it’s definitely LookML
- What is your name? Leonardo Lee
- What is your job title and industry? GDG Cloud Hong Kong Organizer
- How long have you used Looker? 1 year
- Trailing or Leading commas in your SQL queries?
- If SQL isn’t your thing: Column or Bar chart? Still learning
- What’s the 1 Looker/Data related subject that you’d consider yourself an expert on and would love to help others with? Not yet
- (optional) Any other info about yourself that you’d like to include… I’m based in Hong Kong - would like learn more share to my community!
