🏆SFEIR is the Google Cloud EMEA Training Partner of the Year 2025🤝New partnership: Official GitLab Training🤖New training: AI-Augmented Developer
🏆SFEIR is the Google Cloud EMEA Training Partner of the Year 2025🤝New partnership: Official GitLab Training🤖New training: AI-Augmented Developer
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Cloud Hero: Looker Skills

This hands-on experience equips you to explore and analyze data using interactive Explores. Craft compelling visualizations, filter and sort data for deeper insights, and leverage Looker functions for advanced data manipulation. Learn to merge results from multiple Explores for comprehensive analysis. Emerge as a Looker pro, unlocking the power of data for informed decision-making.

Google Cloud
✓ Official training Google CloudLevel Fundamentals⏱️ 0.5 day (3.5h)

What you will learn

  • This hands-on experience equips you to explore and analyze data using interactive Explores.
  • Craft compelling visualizations, filter and sort data for deeper insights, and leverage Looker functions for advanced data manipulation.
  • Learn to merge results from multiple Explores for comprehensive analysis.
  • Emerge as a Looker pro, unlocking the power of data for informed decision-making.

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of SQL will be helpful but not mandatory

Target audience

  • Someone brand new to Looker

Training Program

4 modules to master the fundamentals

Activities

GSP718 - Looker Data Explorer - Qwik Start (30 mins)

Activities

GSP855 - Filtering and Sorting Data in Looker (60 mins)

Activities

GSP856 - Merging Results from Different Explores in Looker (60 mins)

Activities

GSP857 - Looker Functions and Operators (60 mins)

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Quality Process

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Teaching Methods Used
  • Serious Game / Business Game — Game-based learning simulating professional challenges.
  • Guided Labs — Guided practical exercises on software, hardware, or technical environments.
  • Troubleshooting / Problem Solving — Diagnosing and fixing a breakdown, bug, or malfunction.
Evaluation and Monitoring System

The achievement of training objectives is evaluated at multiple levels to ensure quality:

  • Continuous Knowledge Assessment : Verification of knowledge throughout the training via participatory methods (quizzes, practical exercises, case studies) under instructor supervision.
  • Progress Measurement : Comparative self-assessment system including an initial diagnostic to determine the starting level, followed by a final evaluation to validate skills development.
  • Quality Evaluation : End-of-session satisfaction questionnaire to measure the relevance and effectiveness of the training as perceived by participants.

Frequently Asked Questions

Analysts and business users who consume data in Looker and want to become autonomous in exploring and visualizing it.
You will be able to explore data with interactive Explores, filter and sort for deeper insight, merge results coming from different Explores, and use Looker functions and operators.
Cloud Hero is Google Cloud's gamified lab format: instead of following slides, you work through a series of hands-on labs on real Google Cloud projects, scored as you progress. The competitive framing is what keeps a room of practitioners engaged for a whole session.
The session runs 149 hands-on labs: a Looker Data Explorer quick start, filtering and sorting data in Looker, merging results from different Explores, and Looker functions and operators.
This course is contracted via Google Cloud only: it cannot be purchased directly from SFEIR Institute. Contact us to learn how to order it through Google Cloud.
Yes. Cloud Hero is an official Google Cloud format, delivered here by SFEIR Institute, a certified Google Cloud Training Partner and Google Cloud Training Partner of the Year 2025.
Our training organizations SFEIR SAS and SFEIR-Est are Qualiopi certified for training activities. Because this course is contracted via Google Cloud, contact us to review the options that apply to your situation.

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