@svickers they’re going to start out with subtotals and 🎉 adjustable and freezable columns 🎉 but the team has further refinements planned

Is there any plan to add French and Chinese language support?

Thanks for the information. Could you please confirm if there is any way in Looker by which in built messages such as ‘Loading Data…’ while loading the look can be translated to any available languages like French ?

Thanks for the info.

Is there a fix for explore names that contain special characters, most notedly for us was the ‘&’?

Whenever we renamed an explore and then attempted to switch the name with the content validator, there were issues due to the ampersand being present in the old name.

I see many great improvement in system activity. Can we add filter to User Activity dashboard to exclude all users who are disabled?

Any updates on PDF’s with filters at the top?

While it’s great to see these new visualizations, I feel like the waterfall and box plot are an iteration away from being ready for business users selecting them from an Explore (though maybe this is something with a few examples of how to use them properly from Looker, I’ll understand the intent more than I do right now). My concern is that it seems they both require using of Table Calcs or LookML, which to me goes against Looker’s raison d’être of no/low-code data dives for all.

For a Waterfall, for example, I’m not clear on how we’re intended to use it with one dimension and one measure. The most obvious use case for a Waterfall Chart is probably a visualization of income. For that, I would’ve thought the approach to accommodate would be to actually allow zero dimensions, and only measures. Then, to be able to specify whether each measure is an Up or Down contributor (i.e. flip the signs if needed), and the column headers could simply be the measure column names. With one dimension and one measure to accommodate this, pretty sure I’d have to write Waterfall-specific fields.

For a Box Plot, I understand the concept at least, but I still don’t think it’s overly usable to require writing between two and five measures just for it. The way I was hoping it would work, is to accept two dimensions and one measure and for the system to deduce the rest (the quartile locations, whisker extremities, etc.). Say your first dimension was Store Name, and your second was Order Number. Then, with a Total Sales measure, this could present a box per Store, with orders ‘bucketed’ into the appropriate regions.

Hopefully something in this ramble is of use to someone, but these are promising starts 🙂

Interesting! Seems the use case I was envisioning is pretty different. For me, the thing I love about a waterfall chart is to take multi-variate realities (such as profit), and to deconstruct them into those raw components (such as + revenue - fixed costs - variable costs). That said, I totally neglected to think about that kind of use for Waterfalls, but I see the value completely!

Are the online docs for the box plot available?

Hi all, thanks so much for your feedback on the new visualizations! We love hearing from our customers on their use cases and where our features are working / not working for them. I do want to give a couple of updates around the waterfall and boxplot visualizations:

@bens I totally hear you on the 0 dimension use case for waterfall - we are going to be releasing an update soon that supports that configuration. We will also be pushing a couple of fixes to resolve bugs around the color picker - thanks for your patience as we roll these out!

For boxplot we did take an approach that is a bit different from other products given our in-database architecture. Since Looker does not consume or store the full dataset in memory, computing the min/max/quartiles based on the subset of rows available in the table could potentially result in inaccurate values. To ensure accurate results, we instead opted for the database to do the computation, which does require that measures or custom fields are needed to set it up.

Thanks again everyone for the feedback and helping us improve - keep it coming!

Cheers,

Arielle

Hi @divvyMatt, glad to hear you are enjoying the new table updates! Yes, the ability to transpose (flip the columns + rows) is in the works right now. Here’s a sneak peek 😀 (it’s not available quite yet, but will be in an upcoming release!)

Christmas is coming early this year!