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Company blog · looker.com/news/blogbusinessdata
Google Cloud is the company blog at looker.com, writing about business and data. Since 2013, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Looker to Join Google Cloud”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link looker.com as the site for Looker, a business intelligence product, and in job listings. Its blog posts are cited on public datasets and Mary Meeker's internet trends report.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Looker is Google Cloud agentic business intelligence and embedded analytics platform. Unify metrics with a trusted semantic layer and Gemini agents.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-03-07
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-11-16
- Looker to Join Google Cloud3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-06
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-01
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-02
- Looker is hiring experienced Developers and Data Sleuths2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-02
What Hacker News says?
Looker | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | ONSITE | http://www.looker.com/ "Have I found tech paradise..." is a direct quote from a Glassdoor review for Looker. At the root of that sentiment are 3 things: 1) challenging and impactful Engineering problems that need solving, 2) a culture that is collaborative and supportive, in which everyone is at times both Teacher and Student, and 3) a ridiculously…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Specializing Retention Emails Using Behavioral Data as a story · 7 points
HN discussionLooker | Software Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | ONSITE Looker is a business intelligence platform that makes it easy for analysts to create and curate custom data experiences. We're seeking experienced engineers to help build out our cutting-edge data discovery platform. Looker is still a small team, so you’ll have the opportunity to work on many aspects of the product. That said, you should have extensive…
Comment linking /company/careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Elastic Analytical Databases are the future of data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLooker | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | ONSITE "Have I found tech paradise..." is a direct quote from a Glassdoor review for Looker. At the root of that sentiment are 3 things: 1) challenging and impactful Engineering problems that need solving, 2) a culture that is collaborative and supportive, in which everyone is at times both Teacher and Student, and 3) a ridiculously favorable financial…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted Big Advances in Big Analytics as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLooker | Full Stack Software Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | ONSITE "Have I found tech paradise..." is a direct quote from a Glassdoor review for Looker. At the root of that sentiment are 3 things: 1) challenging and impactful Engineering problems that need solving, 2) a culture that is collaborative and supportive, in which everyone is at times both Teacher and Student, and 3) a ridiculously favorable finan…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted BI for the under 40 crowd as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLooker - SF Bay (Santa Cruz), NYC, and London - Full-time positions across the company. Great culture, mentorship, opportunity to help scale the company. http://www.looker.com/ Jobs Page: http://www.looker.com/careers Hiring developers, analysts (pre-sales, implementation, and engagement), DBAs, etc. We've just recently raised our Series B from Meritech Capital and are looking to grow the team with strong, eager, wi…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”Submitted Looker to Join Google Cloud as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot a complete solution, but if you're already using Looker... https://looker.com/platform/blocks/embedded/create-a-data-di...
Comment linking /platform/blocks/embedded/create-a-data-dictionary
on “Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?”Submitted How to Approach Funnel Analysis (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLooks like the data goes up through 2015-10-13. I created a Look (disclosure: work for Looker) that shows story counts by day for the last 365 days here: https://looker.com/publicdata/looks/169?show=viz
Comment linking /publicdata/looks/169?show=viz
on “Google launches Public Datasets program”Submitted Google Buys Looker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat to see folks digging into this. Looker (where I work) is what you're seeing visualize and make the underlying datasets explorable. Our founder did a great blog post explaining how it works and how quickly these datasets yield interesting insights with just a few lines of code. Full blog post explaining and walking through the process (and giving access to explore the data fully yourself, no SQL required) is he…
Comment linking /blog/hacking-hacker-news
on “Google launches Public Datasets program”Submitted Looker launches analytical apps for business as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooker | Security | Various | Onsite/Remote | Full-Time | https://looker.com Looker has LOTS of open positions on the security team. If you're interested, please reach out or directly apply using the links below. We are looking for curiously brilliant individuals who are passionate about security to join our team. [+] Director of Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance | San Francisco or Santa Cruz Only |> https:/…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Submitted Segment and Looker announce comprehensive customer analytics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are also many cloud-hosted SaaS companies that offer an installable version of their products: GitHub: https://enterprise.github.com/home NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/onsite Travis CI: https://enterprise.travis-ci.com/ Circle CI: https://circleci.com/enterprise Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/pricing/ CodeClimate: https://codeclimate.com/enterprise Waffle.io: https://takeout.waffle.io Coveralls: https://enterprise.co…
Comment linking /docs/admin/on-premise/installation
on “Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services”Submitted Aggregate Functions Gone Bad, and the Joins Who Made Them that Way as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe page is White with JavaScript off. Here the Info which is readable with JavaScript off :-) https://looker.com/blog/looker-to-join-google-cloud
Comment linking /blog/looker-to-join-google-cloud
on “Google to Acquire Looker”Submitted Looker is hiring experienced Developers and Data Sleuths as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooker ( http://www.looker.com ), Periscope ( http://www.periscope.io ), Mode Analytics ( http://www.modeanalytics.com ), and Chart.io ( http://www.chart.io ) should probably be even more worried than Tableau.
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on “Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS”Submitted Rolling Aggregates in SQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionKPCB Looker page: http://www.kpcb.com/companies/looker Looker Blog, noting Mary Meeker's inclusion of Looker: https://looker.com/blog/catching-third-wave "Looker Secures $48 Million Series C Funding from Kleiner Perkins" (January 2016): https://looker.com/news/press/looker-secures-48-million-seri...
Comment linking /news/press/looker-secures-48-million-series-c-funding-from-kleiner-perkins
on “Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report [pdf]”Submitted Looker unviels Looker 6 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is pretty cool! For anyone interested in a paid solution, I saw a demo by http://www.looker.com/ at AWS re:Invent. It connects to your database (can be run on premises), can generate the required SQL so analysts can easily use it and looks like a very cool service for business intelligence. The person I spoke with said they were planning to open source their customized d3 visualizations.
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on “ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL”Submitted Fantasy Football: Player and Position Analysis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt just comes down to specialization. The BI tools that succeed will be the ones that offer features that Google will never pursue. A perfect example would be Looker's LookML[0] - companies that don't need that sort of functionality will be fine with Google Data Studio. But if you need that functionality (and it is very, very nice) - you'll pay Looker. https://looker.com/
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on “Making Google Data Studio Free for Everyone”Submitted Predict Lending Club’s loan portfolio returns using HP Vertica, Looker and R as a story · 1 points
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