4 ms·
> When we asked them to demo, their presales consultant struggled to create anything other than a canned demo. The opposite experience is what sold me on Looke
by sologoub 8y ago
> When we asked them to demo, their presales consultant struggled to create anything other than a canned demo.
The opposite experience is what sold me on Looker - super competent team and very clear in how “the magic works”. All logic and queries are right there to copy/paste into your own editor to fiddle with if you so choose, or use the built-in SQL runner. At the same time, non-tech users need not worry about such stuff.
- numbsafari 8y agoSame here... I just wish Looker had visualizations at least on par with ... Excel. They’ve been promising to remedy that for two years now, and now they are promising a move to HighCharts by end of year... but will they fix all the issues, or just slap on a new coat of paint? I can only wait and see for so long.
- sologoub 8y agoHaven’t ran into much as our needs are fairly basic right now. Biggest gripe for me is the lack of comparison period within the tiles that display numbers. For example you have 1k users doing X. Is that good or bad? Data in context is much more usable - if X is leaving and it’s a 50% drop from last week, that’s great news! Conversely, if X is feature use, you have 100m users and the change is 2% from last year, maybe it’s not so good.
- dgudkov 8y agoAt least? Excel has excellent, top-level visualizations. They might not look sexy, but for everyone who works in the area of data visualization it's obvious how much effort and thought have been put into designing Excel charts. Getting data visualization right is far far less trivial than it might seem.