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Google Cloud Skills Boost

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Megan` Hu

Member since 2021

Silver League

3800 points
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned May 3, 2022 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned May 3, 2022 EDT
Version Control and Caching Earned May 3, 2022 EDT
The Modern Data Platform and LookML Earned May 3, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned May 3, 2022 EDT
Manage Data Models in Looker Earned May 2, 2022 EDT
Delivery Shadowing Earned Apr 28, 2022 EDT
Case Studies Earned Apr 28, 2022 EDT
Technology + Beyond the UI Earned Apr 28, 2022 EDT
Technology + Within the UI Earned Apr 28, 2022 EDT
Table Calculations, Pivots, and Visualizations Earned Apr 28, 2022 EDT
Building Reports in Looker Earned Apr 28, 2022 EDT
Liquid Templates and Parameters Earned Apr 28, 2022 EDT
Extends to Keep LookML DRY Earned Apr 27, 2022 EDT
Admin Roles and Folder Access Earned Apr 27, 2022 EDT
Achieving Business Outcomes with Looker Earned Apr 18, 2022 EDT
Driving Data Culture and Designing Dashboards Earned Apr 17, 2022 EDT
Looker Explained Earned Apr 16, 2022 EDT
Build LookML Objects in Looker Earned Jan 14, 2022 EST
Applying Advanced LookML Concepts in Looker Earned Jan 13, 2022 EST
Developing Data Models with LookML Earned Jan 12, 2022 EST
Understanding LookML in Looker Earned Jan 9, 2022 EST
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker Earned Jan 8, 2022 EST
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports Earned Jan 6, 2022 EST

Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: write SQL queries, query public tables, load sample data into BigQuery, troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery, and create reports in Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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This course aims to introduce you to the basic concepts of Git: what it is and how it's used in Looker. You will also develop an in-depth knowledge of the caching process on the Looker platform, such as why they are used and why they work

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This course provides an introduction to databases and summarized the differences in the main database technologies. This course will also introduce you to Looker and how Looker scales as a modern data platform. In the lessons, you will build and maintain standard Looker data models and establish the foundation necessary to learn Looker's more advanced features.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Manage Data Models in Looker skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: maintaining LookML project health; utilizing SQL runner for data validation; employing LookML best practices; optimizing queries and reports for performance; and implementing persistent derived tables and caching policies. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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In this course, you shadow a series of client meetings led by a Looker Professional Services Consultant.

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By the end of this course, you should feel confident employing technical concepts to fulfill business requirements and be familiar with common complex design patterns.

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In this course you will discover additional tools for your toolbox for working with complex deployments, building robust solutions, and delivering even more value.

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Develop technical skills beyond LookML along with basic administration for optimizing Looker instances

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This course reviews the processes for creating table calculations, pivots and visualizations

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This course is designed for Looker users who want to create their own ad-hoc reports. It assumes experience of everything covered in our Get Started with Looker course (logging in, finding Looks & dashboards, adjusting filters, and sending data)

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In this course you will discover Liquid, the templating language invented by Shopify and explore how it can be used in Looker to create dynamic links, content, formatting, and more.

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Hands on course covering the main uses of extends and the three primary LookML objects extends are used on as well as some advanced usage of extends.

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This course is designed to teach you about roles, permission sets and model sets. These are areas that are used together to manage what users can do and what they can see in Looker.

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In this course, we’ll show you how organizations are aligning their BI strategy to most effectively achieve business outcomes with Looker. We'll follow four iterative steps: Plan, Build, Launch, Grow, and provide resources to take into your own services delivery to build Looker with the goal of achieving business outcomes.

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This course provides an iterative approach to plan, build, launch, and grow a modern, scalable, mature analytics ecosystem and data culture in an organization that consistently achieves established business outcomes. Users will also learn how to design and build a useful, easy-to-use dashboard in Looker. It assumes experience with everything covered in our Getting Started with Looker and Building Reports in Looker courses.

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By the end of this course, you should be able to articulate Looker's value propositions and what makes it different from other analytics tools in the market. You should also be able to explain how Looker works, and explain the standard components of successful service delivery.

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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building new dimensions and measures, views, and derived tables; setting measure filters and types based on requirements; updating dimensions and measures; building and refining Explores; joining views to existing Explores; and deciding which LookML objects to create based on business requirements. Skill badges validate your practical knowledge on specific products through hands-on labs and challenge assessments. Earn a badge by completing a course or jump straight into the challenge lab to get your badge today. Badges prove your proficiency, enhance your professional profile, and ultimately lead to increased career opportunities. Visit your profile to track badges you’ve earned.

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In this course, you will get hands-on experience applying advanced LookML concepts in Looker. You will learn how to use Liquid to customize and create dynamic dimensions and measures, create dynamic SQL derived tables and customized native derived tables, and use extends to modularize your LookML code.

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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.

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In this quest, you will get hands-on experience with LookML in Looker. You will learn how to write LookML code to create new dimensions and measures, create derived tables and join them to Explores, filter Explores, and define caching policies in LookML.

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In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: filtering, sorting, and pivoting data; merging results from different Looker Explores; and using functions and operators to build Looker dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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