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Fantasy Football: A Guide for Streaming Defenses
If you’re streaming fantasy football defenses -- selecting a new defense week-by-week -- finding the right defense to start can be difficult. While the projections are usually a decent starting point...
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Our Top Picks for Denodo’s DataFest
It was so great to see so many Looker customers and partners under one roof at JOIN 2017 in September. It granted us real opportunity to learn about the new tools and technologies our customers are...
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Highlights from JOIN 2017: The Feedback Wall
If you were among the lucky attendees at the recent JOIN 2017 conference in San Francisco you probably caught the announcement of Looker 5 and all the new product features. If you missed it, you can...
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4 Ways to Level Up Your Customer Support Analytics with Intercom, Looker...
One of the few constants of doing business is that Customer Support encompasses everything you do over the course of your business relationship. From the sales pitch to contract signing and beyond,...
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4 Easy Ways to Embed Analytics with Looker
The customers have spoken and, as featured in the 2017 G2 Crowd Report, have selected Looker as the Leader in the Embedded Analytics space. So, what exactly does embedding with Looker look like?...
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How Poshmark Powers Customer Service with Looker and Nexla
Poshmark is the largest social marketplace for fashion where anyone can buy, sell and share their style with others. Poshmark’s mission is to make shopping simple and fun by connecting people around a...
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Optimizing BigQuery + GCP with Looker Blocks from Datatonic
Google BigQuery is an extremely powerful analytics data warehouse. It allows you to run terabyte-scale queries, getting results in seconds, and gives you the benefits of being a completely fully...
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Customer Spotlight: Building a Data Driven Culture at Disqus
When I started first started my career in analytics, Data Analyst was declared the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”. Buzz around “big data” was on the rise as the most successful companies were...
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How Kiva Creates Opportunity with Data
When you think of “startups”, you probably don’t imagine a homemade baked goods shop in Paraguay or a goat farm operating inside a refugee camp in Jericho. However, these small entrepreneurial...
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Agile and Bulletproof: An Approach to Mature Embedded Analytics
Our mission at frame.ai is to make it easy to build better relationships with your customers (internal and external) using Slack. As a small team of startup vets, we often need to work quickly and...
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Analysts, It’s Time to Focus on Analytics
I’ve got some bad news. If you’re an analyst, you’re not being well-served by your existing tools. And at Looker we understand your pain. But I’ve also got some good news: today Looker announced the...
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Git More Out of Your Data Model: Announcing Git Branching in Looker
At Looker, we place a high priority on making LookML development easy, efficient, and effective for analysts. This idea - along with a strong support of coding best practices for collaboration - is...
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Our Five Favorite Reads from 2017
As 2017 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite reads from the past year. From personal stories to practical guides, these articles cover the topics most on our minds, as well as...
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7 Reasons Looker Built a New Language for Data
To many people, analytics tools all look the same. Some dashboards, a few reports, a way to slice data. That’s because the real differentiators lie behind the scenes, where the great tools are...
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Announcing JOIN The Tour
It’s incredible to think that after only two consecutive years, JOIN – Looker’s annual user conference – has generated such a buzz in the data community. Our latest event in San Francisco drew over...
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Amazon Redshift announces support for LISTAGG DISTINCT aggregate function
Amazon Redshift recently announced support for the LISTAGG DISTINCT function. If you’ve never used the LISTAGG function before, it’s a handy way to aggregate all of the values for a specified...
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Power Up your Zendesk Analytics with Looker Blocks and Blendo
Successful businesses know to never underestimate the importance of top customer support. As an integral aspect of the customer experience, effective support can contribute significantly to: Customer...
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The Data Has Spoken. Amazon’s HQ2 Should Be In....
If you’ve been on the internet in the past few months, you’ve already heard that Amazon is opening a massive new facility. Hundreds of cities across the U.S. have applied, hoping to get the chance to...
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Amazon Redshift Announces Support for Late Binding Views
Amazon Redshift announces support for Late Binding Views Amazon Redshift recently announced support for Late Binding Views. A Late Binding View is a view that is not tied to the underlying database...
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Super Bowl LII: A Closer Look at the Matchup
As Super Bowl Sunday 2018 approaches, the matchup between the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles is generating lots of different storylines. Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are going for their...
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