Coursera
Free Online Course (Audit)
English
Paid Certificate Available
2 weeks long, 5-6 hours worth of material
selfpaced
Overview
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This course empowers you to develop scalable, performant LookML (Looker Modeling Language) models that provide your business users with the standardized, ready-to-use data that they need to answer their questions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to start building and maintaining LookML models to curate and manage data in your organization’s Looker instance.
Syllabus
- Module 0: Introduction to the Course
- This module introduces the course on LookML for Looker developers.
- Module 1: Introduction to Looker and LookML
- This module provides an overview of Looker and the Looker integrated development environment (IDE) for LookML developers.
- Module 2: Modeling Dimensions and Measures
- This module reviews how to model new dimensions and measures using LookML.
- Module 3: Project Version Control
- This module reviews how Looker integrates with Git for version control of LookML projects.
- Module 4: Model Files
- This module provides a deeper dive into the model files of LookML projects for developers to start designing and building custom Explores for business users.
- Module 5: Derived Tables
- This module explains how to use derived tables in Looker to create new custom tables that do not yet exist in the underlying database.
- Module 6: Caching and Datagroups
- This module provides an overview of how caching works in Looker and how developers can use datagroups to manage caching policies.
- Module 7: Course Summary
- This module provides a summary of the topics covered in this course.
Taught by
Google Cloud Training and Jenny Palomino
