Hi all! We’re getting a little more sophisticated with our data science work here at Zearn, and I thought I’d see if you all have some advice. Most of this work happens in Python or R using Jupyter notebooks based on data pulled from Looker, and I’m wondering how best to integrate Looker. In particular, I have two questions:
Does anyone have best practices for pulling data into notebooks from Looker? One challenge we run into using the API is that some of the queries we want can take a very long time to run. If the data won’t change (e.g. we’re pulling a fixed time period), we usually just download the results from Looker into a CSV and use that, but I don’t love the way that decouples the data from the source.
Hosting and sharing notebooks: It’s easy to link people to looks or explores in Looker when we want to share something in Looker, but obviously we can’t do this with notebooks. Are there tools folks like to do something similar with notebooks?
Thanks in advance!