Global Looker, BigQuery & AI Agents Unofficial Google UG

Join data scientists, analytics engineers, and report builders globally who are exploring Looker, LookML Semantic Layer, Looker Studio, BigQuery, Google Sheets, Goolge CoLab (TPU & GPU), and AI Agents on Google Cloud. This unofficial group connects people building with data, from pipelines to dashboards. Whether you’re experienced or just starting, meet peers, exchange ideas, and dive into hands-on demos. We aim to grow Lagos' most vibrant people data and analytics community.

Run by

• Rif is a Google Developer Expert & Staff MLDevOps Engineer
• Damilare is a Chairperson of the Lagos Looker, BigQuery & AI Agents Community

We focus on the technologies shaping the future of data and AI development. Here's a breakdown of our main themes and tools, feel free to request meetups or content in any of these areas.

🧰 Business Intelligence (BI) & Reporting

• Looker & LookML – For scalable business intelligence and semantic modeling.
• Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio) – To design interactive, shareable dashboards and reports.
• Google Sheets
• Connected Sheets - For analytics connected to live BigQuery and Looker data.
• Looker Studio Connectors – Extend data connectivity to more sources and services.
• Looker Marketplace – Discover community-built extensions and visualizations.

🏗️ Data Warehouse & Analytics Infrastructure

• BigQuery – A serverless, highly scalable data warehouse for fast SQL analytics.
• BigLake – Unified storage engine for structured and unstructured data across clouds.
• Dataplex – For data governance, metadata management, and unified data discovery.
• BigQuery Public Datasets – Access to open datasets for exploration, experimentation, and prototyping.

🔬 Data Science, ML & AI Development

• Google Colab (TPU & GPU) – Run Jupyter notebooks on high-performance hardware.
• Vertex AI – End-to-end ML platform for model training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Google Earth Engine – For large-scale geospatial data analysis and environmental research.
• AI-optimized data formats – Including ArrayRecord, TFRecord, Apache Arrow, and Apache Parquet for efficient training and storage

🤖 AI Agents & Conversational Interfaces

• Vertex AI Agent Builder & Agent Engine – Build and deploy intelligent, task-oriented agents.
• Agent Development Kit (ADK) – Tools to create AI agents that can search, reason, and act.
• Conversational AI – Design chat interfaces and natural language workflows that integrate with your data stack.
• Looker + Agents – Use Looker's semantic layer as a reliable source of truth for your AI interfaces.

Join our Google groups page: https://groups.google.com/g/global-looker-bigquery--ai-agents-unofficial-google-user-group

### 🌍 Global + Local: We're Digital Twins

We’re digitally twinned with the Lagos Looker, BigQuery & AI Agents Meetup — an active, on-the-ground community hosting in-person meetups and events in Nigeria.