LookML (and by extension Looker) was most powerful when used with modern cloud lakehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift because it allowed you to do most of your data transformations in LookML, provided you’ve already done your EL. Suddenly, transformation has moved up the stack (View Highlight)
Mr. Ben, riffing on our very own Jason Ganz, poignantly sums up why Analytics Engineering is such an exciting space to be in right now:
Just to double down on the point, because it’s so important, “The fun thing about analytics engineering is it’s a discipline we’re all collaboratively building together.”
No company owns the definition for an Analytics Engineer. There is no certification handed down from a board of experts before a data professional can start practicing their craft. Yet, a vibrant community has formed around analytic work, welcoming your ideas, and weaving them into the larger narrative.
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