PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2025

Candidates must know how to build and explain dashboards using tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Looker. Data Visualization & Dashboarding Data storytelling is a core part of communicating your insights. Sample questions : Which chart type would you use to show retention trends? Explain how you would visualize an A/B test result.

Data Visualization

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 5, 2025

Data Visualization & Reporting Create interactive dashboards and reports using Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or Excel. Hands-on experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker). Perform statistical analysis, A/B testing , and predictive modeling. Identify process inefficiencies and recommend data-driven solutions.

Data Visualization

Piyanka Jain

JUNE 10, 2019

What Google’s and Salesforce’s respective acquisition of Looker and Tableau Software means for CIO’s The BI analytics tool space is consolidating to compete against Microsoft’s ensemble of Business Analytics(BA) products which promises to solve for the entire workflow?—?data With Google’s announcement to buy Looker for $2.6b

Analytic Tools

First Round Review

AUGUST 31, 2021

Nick Caldwell's resume includes an enviable list of companies — Microsoft, Reddit, Looker and Twitter. He shares his biggest lessons from each for a crash course in finding success across different company cultures, scales & functions.

ProductCraft

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Daniel Mintz, the chief data evangelist at Looker, a data exploration and discovery business intelligence platform. Read more » The post Product Love Podcast: Daniel Mintz, Chief Data Evangelist at Looker appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

Product Research

Gainsight

MARCH 30, 2023

Originally published June 2, 2022 By Brian LaFaille, former Global Head of CS Strategic Programs at Looker Digital Customer Success is for everyone. We caught up with Brian LaFaille, former Global Head of Customer Success Strategic Programs at Looker, to get his take on segmentation and how they score customers at Looker.

Customer Experience

First Round Review

JULY 2, 2019

Looker went from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small, scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around the globe.

Startups

First Round Review

JULY 1, 2019

Looker went from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small, scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around the globe. Continue reading at First Round Review »

Startups

Reveal

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This is where tools such as Reveal and Looker come in handy – they convert raw data into easy-to-understand and easy-to-use insights that enable organizations to reshape and modernize the way they do business. What is Looker? What Is Looker? In 2019, Looker got acquired by Google and is now part of the Google Cloud platform.

Embedded Analytics

Amplitude

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Current Company : Looker. Since the time of writing, Andrew has left Looker to start his own company. After a little over 3 years, I wanted to try my hand at SaaS enterprise products to learn about the differences between B2B and B2C, which brought me to Looker in July of 2017. Don’t rely on anybody else to get your data.”.

Data Visualization

First Round Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Jennifer Rettig brings her recruiting expertise from Target, Apple, Yahoo, and — most recently — Looker, to share the tactics that will find your company the best executives. Continue reading at First Round Review »

Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2024

Up until now, that was handled by Mixpanel and Looker, our BI (business intelligence) solution of choice. I’d like to share how we worked with our product, engineering, and design teams to inspire and dogfood the best business analytics solution and what we’re gaining today by moving off of Looker. Second, cost became an issue.

Data Visualization

Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In 2019, industry-leading Business Intelligence tools (BI tools), Looker and Tableau, were acquired by Google and Salesforce for over $18 billion combined. Looker, and other tools like it, are often deployed with good intent. However, powerful isn’t always useful — particularly for product teams. Ready to get started?

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

examples: Looker, Ironclad] Level three: Strong product-market fit, where the fish are jumping into the boat. Moreover, founders should start paying attention to key metrics like sales conversion rates, retention rates, and efficiency metrics like the magic number (new ARR divided by CAC).

User Testing

Indicative

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

An excellent complement to BI tools, Indicative is great for ad hoc analysis and quick results that can take hours in Looker and Tableau. Simple, no-SQL interface makes it easy for non-technical users to get the most out of their data. Our customer-driven roadmap means you tell us where you want the platform to go—and we build it.

Data Visualization

The Review by First Round

JULY 15, 2021

Nick has also held roles as Reddit’s VP of Engineering and Looker’s Chief Product and Engineering Officer. Between Microsoft, Reddit, Looker, and now Twitter, Nick’s worked for companies with vastly different cultures. Nick has also held roles as Reddit’s VP of Engineering and Looker’s Chief Product and Engineering Officer.

Engineering

Userpilot

JUNE 28, 2024

Looker Studio : Best for free tool for self-serve analytics. Google Data Studio Google Data Studio, now rebranded as Looker Studio, is a free, cloud-based self-service analytics and data visualization tool from Google. Interactive dashboards : Looker Studio enables business users to create dynamic and visually appealing dashboards.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Looker Studio can assist you in campaign performance tracking. Looker Studio – for campaign performance tracking Looker Studio stands out as a specialized tool that brings a new level of sophistication to campaign performance tracking. Looker Studio. If you want to know more, book a demo now.

Data Visualization

Indicative

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Here are a few to consider: Looker creates a data modelling layer, through LookML, on top of your raw data. Looker is known for its interactive interface. Every BI solution has its own unique strengths and features. That gives users the ability to model various business metrics, dimensions, and aggregate views.

Embedded Analytics

Indicative

AUGUST 12, 2020

Using a Business Intelligence tool such as Tableau or Looker? This allows us to quickly answer any questions that we may have about our data. Already using Google Analytics, check out Google Analytics vs. Customer Analytics: What’s the Difference? Read Business Intelligence vs. Customer Analytics: Why You Need Both. .

Data Visualization

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Intermediate-to-advanced knowledge of SQL; experience with data visualization tools (Looker, Power BI, Tableau); knowledge of applied statistics. Competencies At a minimum, product operations team members must come to the table with strong data analysis and program management skills. Data analysis. Program management.

Embedded Analytics

Mixpanel

JANUARY 9, 2020

Looker or Tableau) require extensive technical skills and knowledge to operate. Businesses typically want to track this data first, because it can tell you whether the business is succeeding or failing. This type of data is usually handled by a dedicated team of data analysts who use business intelligence (BI) tools. These tools (e.g.,

Data Visualization

Reveal

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Embedded analytics benefits Top 7 embedded analytics platforms Reveal Looker Toucan Sisense Logi analytics Tableau Power BI. Overview: Acquired by Google in 2019, Looker is a browser-based, business intelligence platform that helps collect, analyze and visualize raw data. Table of contents: What are embedded analytics platforms?

Embedded Analytics

Userpilot

JULY 24, 2023

With Agent Dashboard , you can integrate Looker, Power BI, and Tableau dashboards into Zendesk. Agent Dashboard and Zendesk integration Agent Dashboard is an app that enables you to embed Looker, Power BI, or Tableau dashboards in Zendesk. Pricing: Free to use but need Looker, Power BI, or Tableau subscriptions.

Embedded Analytics

Indicative

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you use Looker, for instance, you probably rely on this platform’s data capabilities. SQL is the basis for many modern BI systems — including Looker and Tableau. Every company in the world needs data to strengthen its competitive footing. Reports pique people’s curiosity, so teams start asking for more analyses.

Analytic Tools

Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2019

The squad has full autonomy to achieve the goal: Access to data or information : everyone in Monzo has access to most of our data through Looker, all of our emails are public via Google Groups, conversations tend to be on public Slack channels, and information is open to all on GDrive or Notion.

User Testing

Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2019, industry-leading Business Intelligence (BI) tools, Looker and Tableau, were acquired by Google and Salesforce for over $18 billion combined. More recently in 2020, cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake went public at an eye-popping market capitalization of $70 billion.

Data Visualization

Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

How is Mixpanel different from BI tools like Looker, Tableau, and Mode? Looker, Tableau, Mode): Used to ingest and collate data from sales, finance, and other parts of the company in order to inform business strategy and tactics, and report on KPIs like ARR and revenue churn.

Data Visualization

Mixpanel

APRIL 20, 2022

At this point you may be wondering why we bother syncing data to Mixpanel at all if we can transform it as needed with dbt, rather than use a BI tool like Looker or Tableau or newer tools that offer a self-serve analytics UI that queries your data warehouse directly. There are two reasons.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

JULY 14, 2024

Google Cloud Blog – Looker : Looker, now part of Google Cloud, offers a powerful BI platform for data exploration and analysis. Tableau Blog : Tableau is a leading data visualization tool, and its blog features a wide range of content, including tutorials, tips, and inspiration for creating impactful dashboards and reports.

Embedded Analytics

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Alternatives: Microsoft BI, Looker. You can perform fairly complex data visualization in a very intuitive, drag and drop manner so your team don’t need to be fiddling around with SQL and so forth. LeanData – lead management. Conversions aren’t a nice, neat and organized path from point A to B.

Analytic Tools

Amplitude

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our customer data stack at OkCupid consists of mParticle, Looker, and product intelligence (PI) platform Amplitude. mParticle collects and stores our customer event data, which we send to Looker for general business reporting, and to Amplitude for deeper analysis on user behavior and our customer experience.

Data Visualization