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Orly LevinNew Member

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Sending Scheduled Look for Multiple Recipients In single Email

After I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to send a single email to multiple recipients, I had to post it.Simply use a semicolon (;) to separate email addresses instead of a comma (,).For example recipient1@example.com;recipient2@example.com I hope this tip helps you in the future!

1 month ago

fpaganessiNew Member

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Best practices to avoid performance issues in data visualizations

Hello Team, We have issues in performance in data visualization. We have more than 10 years of data, 600 TB data, and at the moment of visualization the system in taking a long time.What should I do to avoid performance issues?What should I do before uploading the data ?

3 months ago

norrimackNew Member

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Steam Controller with World of Warcraft

I've changed my controls using the addon Console Port and the world of warcraft steam controller to the point where reverting back to Mouse and Keyboard would be a detriment to my game play. Has anyone else have luck with this gadget and an MMO? It has given WoW new life, and I find myself wanting to play it at work again, not because it's WoW, but because I can play it so easily with the steam controller.

8 months ago

roberto.belio-1636109456New Member

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Change the Model of a dashboard from A model to B model (Dashboard lives in B model but looking at A Data model)

Thanks you all for helping here. Request I have: We have a dashboard that is created under GSS's data model. However this dashboard lives now under CA model (But still looks at GSS's data model).Problem:People who do not have access to the GSS model (As they do not need it) cannot use it. Get LookML of the dashboard: “model: GSS”Goal:Change the model that the dashboard is looking at from GSS model to CA model.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have tried/thought:Following this article from Looker help center, I have thought of:Use the Looker Content Validator to change the model. This one feels a bit risky to me. Applying this change there it feels that it will not only apply for the mentioned dashboard but maybe in other places. I am concerned that is going to change the model GSS to CA everywhere. So I did not press the button... Use Create LookML Copies of Dashb

1 year ago

eDataMineNew Member

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manaspNew Member

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Best alternative for fivetran and supermetrics Dashboard ?

Need to know which is the Best alternative for fivetran and supermetrics ? need public opinion before purchase , dont want test n try .need better data integration need better data visualization

1 year ago

manaspNew Member

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Suggest me Fivetran and Supermetrics alternatives for better dashboard , data visualization and data integration

Can anyone Suggest me Fivetran and Supermetrics alternatives for better data visualization and data integration , its not worthy to purchase the tool without public opinion belonging to same niche .please advice

1 year ago

hschaumburgNew Member

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Scheduled data send to PowerBI

Hoping someone can lend some advice on the best way to schedule a .csv to be sent from a Look to PowerBI? I’m very familiar with the schedule feature in Looker, but less experienced with how PowerBI can ingest data. We‘ve developed this data set in Looker, but have some folks that still use PowerBI - would love to cut out the step of them logging into Looker and downloading the .csv!

1 year ago

LOOKERGNew Member

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LOOKER BI TEAM STRUCTURE

Hello, I was wondering if the team at LOOKER has any examples of how large companies have structured their teams (BI, data eng, data science, product analysts) around LOOKER. Also, if you happen to read this and have an example for how your company, or a past company you have worked with, has organized resources around LOOKER, please feel free to share. Have folks created a platform team for stability, performance, upgrades etc? And then another team for LOOKML development and data modeling? Please share! Would highly prefer visual diagrams if you have them!

1 year ago

DMNNew Member

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Facebook showing more registrations than Looker

Hi all, Checking the data for a App client and it seems like Facebook Ads report is showing much more registrations completed than Looker. The data over this year never matched!There were days where Looker showed more Registrations than Facebook but lately seems to be the opposite. Anyone seeing something similar or know what could cause this?Thanks for all the help

1 year ago

Michaël.SMember

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How do you track Looker project?

Dear all, Hope you’re all doing great!!! I was wondering what is the best approach to track Looker implementation. On our side we decided to divide the project by dashboard, and for each dashboard we divide by KPI (simple, medium, complex). So in the end we are able to track the progress in the construction of the lookml. By the way it’s also a great way to define what will be the time needed for a next dashboard or for a new feature. For the moment we are just tracking progress on a sheets but I was wondering if you’re working on trello, jira or other stuff… Take care

1 year ago

iglooburnerMember

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Widen a line in Looker Chart

Hi,I am trying to widen/thicken a line in a Looker line chart so that the line itself is visibly thicker. Ideally, I would be able to thicken all lines in a given chart at once - or just isolate one line that I want to have displayed more prominently. Is that possible?

1 year ago

medha.acharNew Member

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December Looker Events

Make sure to sign up for this months virtual events:Dec. 8th: (Webinar) Modern BI and the Power of Data ExperiencesDec. 8-9: (Virtual Event) SaaStr Scale with Zara Hawkins (Wells) presenting.Dec. 10th: (Webinar) Driving Successful Looker AdoptionWhich use-cases and topics peak your interest most? Respond to this post with which event you'll be attending!

2 years ago

slaterLooker Staff

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Security Analytics - Brute Force Attack

SummaryLog, or machine, data can contain a wealth of information and be used for multiple use cases from Security Analytics to IT Operations and Monitoring. However, it can often be very difficult to extract any meaning out of this data due to its structure and sheer volume. Looker can be used to give log data meaning and make it easier for end users to extract insights from a dataset that is traditionally difficult to work with. A “Brute Force Attack” is a common Security Analytics pattern that is used to detect potentially malicious activity when a user’s attempted logins are consecutively denied several times before eventually succeeding. Looker’s threshold-based alerts, schedules, and actions can be used to detect this activity, alert someone via email, slack, or text, and also trigger other workflows like opening a support ticket. DatasetThis should be setup on “Access” or “Audit” logs that contain information on users and attempted logins. In this example we are using GCP Audit L

2 years ago

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