Helpful Looker Tutorials
August 25, 2026
Explores in Looker are central to creating a powerful and flexible self-service analytics experience. They define the starting point for an analysis and enable users to dive into the data. Explores provide a way to define the scope of data to examine, and they establish the fields available for selection in a query. This article will dive into the concept of Explores in Looker, their structure, and how to create them.
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Looker Blocks are pre-built pieces of LookML code provided by Looker and the Looker community. They represent best practices for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data in Looker. Not only do they serve as a starting point for your LookML projects, but they can also be easily customized to meet your specific requirements.
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One of the pillars of Looker's powerful capabilities is LookML, its proprietary data modeling language. This article will take a deep dive into LookML, focusing on the three key concepts: Views, Explores, and Models.
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Looker is a modern, cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform designed to explore, share, and visualize data at scale. This platform leverages a data modeling language, LookML, to describe and interact with data, making it a compelling choice for companies looking to democratize data insights. This article provides a technical introduction to Looker, discussing its architecture, core components, and capabilities.
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The complete guide to row-level security in Looker: user attributes, access_filter, sql_always_where with _user_attributes, access_grant and required_access_grants, embed users, the things that silently break RLS, and how to test the boundary.
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