September 9, 2026 · Vistelio
One Looker project per business unit is fine until every project re-defines the same date logic, the same brand labels, and the same customer view. This tutorial shows how to use manifest.lkml, local and remote project imports, and LookML constants to build a shared core project that other projects consume like a library.
Read moreSeptember 9, 2026 · Vistelio
Gemini, Conversational Analytics and MCP agents all read your LookML. This tutorial covers the metadata work that decides whether they pick the right fields: pruning the exposed surface, labels, descriptions that carry the business rule, tags as synonyms, filter-value hygiene, agent context in Git, and how to measure whether any of it worked.
Read moreSeptember 9, 2026 · Vistelio
Schedules, conditional schedules, and alerts do different jobs. A practical guide to Looker delivery: datagroup-triggered schedules, alert thresholds that survive holidays and partial loads, custom action servers for write-back, and auditing the whole estate with System Activity and the API.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · Vistelio
Looker Studio is Data Studio again as of April 2026. Here is the naming timeline, what Looker, Data Studio and BigQuery Studio are each for, a decision matrix, and what the split means for Looker customers.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · Vistelio
An honest take: what Conversational Analytics does well, where it fails without a curated LookML model, and how the Looker developer's job shifts toward semantic-layer curation, evaluation and guardrails, with hiring implications.
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