Why

Government-collected datasets contain a wealth of information about our world--everything from which roads have the most potholes to who votes. And in recent years, governments and other public agencies have made huge strides in opening datasets to the public.

But accessibility isn't enough. That’s why Looker has partnered with Google Cloud Platform to take some of those fascinating datasets and make them available for querying with Looker on Google BigQuery. That takes data from being nominally accessible, to actually explorable for anyone with an internet connection.