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Welcome to our inaugural monthly Community Roundup series for the Looker Community! Check out our latest news and upcoming events, along with new Community feature updates.
Top Contributors in July
The Google Cloud Community is driven by its members. Thank you all for the questions, comments, ideas, and scenarios you share with your fellow Looker and Google Cloud Business Insights product users. Here's a quick look at who contributed the most solutions and topics in July.
Meet our top solutions contributors:
We’re all about sharing love!
- Most likes given: @idaok
- Most likes received: @Oscar_E_I
A huge thanks from the Community Team for all the help you've been giving out in the Looker Community. Your solutions and follow-up questions have been a huge help to a lot of people, and we really appreciate it. Keep up the good work!
Are you ready to join the leaderboard as one of our next top contributors?
Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
Top five conversations in July
Here are our most popular discussions in the Looker Community over the past month:
- SQL Error: "Syntax error at or near:"
- How to check the data type of a table's columns [Examples: MYSQL, POSTGRESQL, REDSHIFT, BIGQUERY]
- Column is ambiguous SQL Error
- Looker vs. Looker Studio
- Methods for Period Over Period (PoP) Analysis in Looker
Looking for more topics and discussions?
Visit the Looker Forums or Tips & Tricks board to join the conversation or start something new.
Community Feedback & Updates
The Community team continues to work hard to improve the Community Member experience based on your valuable feedback. Below is an overview of the recent updates to our Community features. Let us know what you think of these updates with a comment below!
We’d love to hear from you.The Community team is constantly working to improve the Community Member experience based on your valuable feedback. Here is an overview of the recent updates to our Community features:
You can now Change your Community profile picture (avatar)
We respect your privacy and encourage members to share as much (or as little) about themselves on your member profile, including the profile picture (avatar) attached to your Google account. Member accounts using Google SSO can now select a different avatar than their Google Profile Image. Read more.
Bug Fix: Posts with HTML not rendering properly in the Activity Feed
We have fixed a bug in the activity feed where HTML in post bodies would sometimes show up differently than intended.
Get engaged!
As we continue to develop and expand the Looker Community offerings, your feedback is essential. We invite Community Members to engage through activities such as:
- Regular events, including Office Hours, where members connect to learn about how others have used AppSheet to create apps that streamline their work
- Community-sourced resources, tips, and knowledge-sharing on the forums
- Member discussions with Q&A amongst peers and Googlers
- Check out News & Announcements to stay up-to-date with the latest Looker announcements, including platform updates, new features, and Community news.
Do you have ideas of ways the community can serve our members better? We’re all ears!
Events
Data monetization is a powerful emerging business model. Beyond simple data sharing, market leaders are connecting organizations, suppliers, and customers through data products augmented with context, insights, and actionability.
By monetizing directly – charging 3rd parties for access to insights – or indirectly – providing data-driven “nudges” that drive business – companies are building new, digital revenue streams and driving growth.
Join us to learn about Google’s data monetization framework, customer success stories, and best practices for building data products with Skander Larbi (@Skander) Google Cloud’s Head of Solutions for Embedded Analytics.
Please complete this form to register for the event and ask your questions in advance. Once registered, you'll receive a calendar invite via email. Even if you can't make it live, register and we'll send you a link to the recording.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Connect with your tribe at Google Cloud Next!
Google Cloud Next ‘23 is the annual global event for decision makers, developers, and anyone passionate about an accessible, scalable, and socially responsible cloud. It's a place to share challenges, solutions, 10x ideas, and game-changing technologies.
The Google Cloud Community Team will be live at Next in the Innovators Hive, the hub for developers and practitioners from around the world to connect with and learn from each other, engage with Googlers, dive into the latest innovations, and much more.
Join us at Google Cloud Next ‘23 to learn, connect, and innovate!
In case you missed these…
- 👋 Hey There, Introduce Yourselves!
- Can I use existing tables or PDTs with the aggregate awareness feature?
Influence Looker’s Roadmap & join the Business Insights Customer Council (BICC)
Do you want to have a say in the development of Google Cloud’s BI roadmap? If so, you should join the Google Cloud BI Customer Council (BICC)!
As a member, you'll get to directly influence our planning by interacting with our user research teams, engineers, and product managers.
When you register for the BICC, you can choose how you want to get involved:
- Surveys: Provide periodic feedback through surveys in Google Forms or from within Looker.
- New Feature Info: Receive more information about new features in a community of early adopters.
- Preview Program: Learn about upcoming open and closed beta programs that you might want to join.
- UX & Design Feedback Sessions: Be the go-to customer that our UX team reaches out to when they are looking for feedback on a feature or problem they are trying to solve.
- In-depth Product Feedback Sessions: Get invited to feedback sessions with our Product Managers and share your thoughts on the roadmap and problems the team is trying to solve.
- Leadership opportunities: Learn about upcoming opportunities for thought leadership & advocacy, including speaking at events, talking with industry analysts, and so forth.
The only commitment is to be engaged.
The more you participate, the more you can drive the future of Looker. If you're interested in becoming a BI Customer Council member, register here.
Note, multiple people from your organization can register, each with their own preferences for involvement. Comment below with any questions or send @marout a personal message (PM)!
Each month Community Members just like you work together to crowdsource solutions to collective challenges members experience while using Looker to visual their data. Have you ever had a complete stranger dive in and help solve a persistent problem, share a link to the exact resource you had been looking for, or just reassure you that you’re on the right path with your project? Let them know!
Marking questions as “Solved” helps your fellow community members know that the solution worked and publicly thanks them for helping out. The process for marking threads as solved is super simple.
At the bottom of the solution, click the “Accept as Solution” button.
The thread will be updated to show that the question, issue or bug has been addressed with a solution:
Marking a reply as an accepted solution will help other members and visitors to the community identify content that solves users’ problems and makes interesting contributions more prominent and easy to access.
Stay in the Know
Thank you to our Community members for making this space a great place to learn and connect. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to share it in the Community Feedback forum or in this post.
To stay up-to-date on Community news, activities, and opportunities, subscribe to News & Announcements. To do so, go to the Announcements page and click on the blue Subscribe button. You can learn more about managing your subscriptions and notifications in this article.
Thanks again for being a part of the Community!
The Google Cloud Community Team
