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Best format to ingest forecast data into Looker ?

  • 17 February 2021
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Hey everyone !

So I am wondering what’s the best way to ingest forecast data into Looker which is csv/xls format? I am totally in the dark here.
Should it one of these 2 formats :

  1. I leave features such as region and vertical in their own columns so that later I can combine relevant groupings in Looker.
  2. I combine all relevant features into row names.

Or 

Is it something completely different?

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Maddie
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Hi Abhi,

 

The ingestion would need to be into the warehouse, rather than into Looker.

 

I would recommend keeping the data at the most granular level, and create any aggregations in Looker.

 

In your case, I would recommend creating multiple rows, and only one column which contains the forecast amount.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Best,

 

 

Maddie | Redkite
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