Looker Explore Users Quick Start Guide

The Explore environment is where you will build your own powerful tables, visualizations, and dashboards.

Your access to the Looker Explore environment allows you to
  • Create powerful visualizations that illustrate your most impactful metrics
  • Customize dashboards with brand-specific colors and logos
  • Modify or add headers and descriptions
  • Build dashboards with exactly the information you want to share

We have a whole bank of short training videos each one focused on a specific skill or chart type.

Some great ones to start with are: 

The Actionable Looks/Dashboards folder in Looker is full of tiles and dashboards for you to build off of rather than starting from scratch.

Use filters and the Edit pane of the Visualization window to customize each tile.

 

To get to the Explore environment:

  1. Click “Explore” on the left-hand navigation bar in the Actionable platform
     
  2. Once in the Looker environment, click “Explore” on the left-hand navigation bar
  3. Under the Actionable Insights dropdown, choose the Explore you want to use (usually Actionable Insights Explore).
  4. Here is what you will see in the Explore environment: