Looker explores

Overview

The Explores tab provides a dashboard design interface for users with a Design license.

Before creating your own dashboards, you should get to know the main concepts:

  • Dimensions: These are columns of your data, which could be physical (exist as columns in the database) or logical (eg., calculation or translation of the actual data).
  • Measures: Aggregations and calculations across one or many rows, such as sum, min, max, average, etc.
  • Visualization: A representation of the aggregated data using color and shape to make it easier to interpret trends.
  • Filters: Limits for your data to customize your view.
  • Pivots: A way of turning a dimension into multiple columns, to explore across multiple groups.

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By picking fields to use as the dimensions and measures, you can build visualizations for any use case. They can then be saved as a Look, a dashboard, or as a tile on an existing dashboard.

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Details on how to create dashboards can be found in the Looker documentation.