[apahwa]

Interesting, I'm surprised Google is using Looker rather than their own tool

edit: ah, I see, it is just one of the partners they have with BigQuery and they are apparently using it for their website (I'm guessing because Looker lets you iframe graphs directly into the page for free).

[dwmintz]

Yup, Looker is a Premier Partner for the GCP launch (https://cloud.google.com/partners/?q=Looker#search). And then we (I work at Looker) are specifically partnering with GCP for the Public Datasets project.

Because LookML (Looker's modeling language) makes it easy to explore and visualize big datasets, we're building out models and dashboards so visitors can get a sense of BigQuery/Looker's power and find insights from the datasets quickly (whether or not they write SQL).

Frankly, there's a ton of public data that's "available" in the sense that you can technically download and clean a CSV, but isn't actually easy to extract meaning from. So we figured we'd select some interesting datasets, do the cleaning, uploading and modeling, and then let folks have at it for free.

If there are specific datasets you'd be interested in seeing, let us know and we'll see what we can do.