The Looker Approach to Modern Data Modeling Identify problems, automate solutions, and future-proof your data strategy Introduction As an analyst, you’ve likely spent many hours writing SQL queries to provide data reports for your stakeholders. Those long hours quickly turn into days, weeks, and months. And, when things change — when new data sources are introduced or when once-irrelevant data fields suddenly become important to your queries — you have to start from scratch. Your original queries are no longer usable. That’s because you have to know what you want to extract from the data before you load it into the database and begin a query. And, you have to model your data every time you need to run a report. It’s tedious and manual, which leaves you wishing for a better,

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