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Agreed. LookML is to SQL what SASS is to CSS: not necessary but it sure makes certain things easier. I’m not connected with Looker in any way, and they are pre
by sturgill 7y ago
Agreed. LookML is to SQL what SASS is to CSS: not necessary but it sure makes certain things easier.
I’m not connected with Looker in any way, and they are pretty expensive, but the product is awesome.
- buremba 7y agoI agree with you, Looker is awesome but it's far from perfect. It does solve most of the problems in a convenient way but as the data modeling gets more and more complex and they're not going to able to iterate the product at that pace, it's the destiny of almost all the enterprise products. Product analytics is one of these complex use-cases. You can't really find a convenient way to run funnel and retention queries in Looker, it only focuses on slicing/dicing the data with their models. Moreover, it has a high learning curve even for the enterprise and there are definitely better ways to approach this problem. Disclaimer: We're actually working on a LookML alternative based on Jsonnet that will be a better alternative for event modeling. This is how it looks like: https://github.com/rakam-io/recipes https://github.com/rakam-io/recipes. We recently published a VSCode extension for it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rakam.rakam-data-modeling https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rakam.ra...
- luckydata 7y agoI find lookml extremely useful but if you have something built for event analytics I can’t wait to try it. Looking at the docs, it’s not clear to me how I get started though. Maybe an introductory tutorial on open source stack and freely available dataset would help a little with that. Just a suggestion.