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Looker is a product that helps you explore, share, and visualize your company's data so that you can make better business decisions. This page will help you start learning Looker with our documentation.
Personalizing Looker
Personalizing Looker — Choose personalization options for your Looker user profile.
Landing pages
These introductory pages help you learn Looker's various skills:
Latest features — Read about the new features in Looker's most recent release.
Find and organize content — Learn how to find the Looks and dashboards that others in your company have already made, and learn how to organize that content.
Send and share content — Learn how to share the content you've found or created, along with how to send content and data to other services.
Retrieve and chart data — Learn how to pull data out of Looker and turn it into tables and graphs.
Set up and administer Looker — Learn how to set up Looker for the first time, connect Looker to your database, and use Looker's system administration functions.
Looker (Google Cloud core) quickstart overview — View the quickstarts that are available to help you get started with Looker, from connecting to your data warehouse to creating and sharing dashboards with rich visualizations.
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