Looker vs Wolfram Mathematica: Which is a better fit?

I love the ability to visualize all of the data in one space. Dashboard creation is easy and so useful.

Can get a bit confusing and confining with more complex queries/analysis. Machine written sql can be annoying.

We use ours with Redshift and Aurora and they take most advantage of both systems. Their super awesome customer support - always available chat who are really good at what they are doing.

To be fair, if you have a terrible underlying data warehouse, then all Looker will do is expose that.

It’s a good option if you want to do dashboards connected to google sheets. Also a good alternative to PowerBi.

Unfortunately, their documentation could use some improving as often I find myself confused and unsure what to do with their docs.

Looker has been a great and useful tool for out business. Where we've found challenges is in the specific data dictionary and set-up, which internally was not well prepared prior to implementation.

I dislike how long it can take certain reports in Looker to load.

Aniruddha A

PhD student

It’s amazing when you don’t need to write code and just need to analyse some data. It helps in speeding up work and great for college studies.

Failure to have knowledge about the errors that arise for the analysis of established models.

Wolfram is a great way to solve pretty much any kind of equation. It's really easy to use and produces great results with a lot of information with the results.

I had to call quite a few times before getting an answer which at the end turned out to be complete​ nonsense. I 've just acquired a license for my own use and install it on a MAC.

Anand A

Research Scholar

I am very happy with the product. It helps me in my research on mathematical modeling.

At least medium programming knowledge required to deal with highly complex system. Tooolboxs and its documentations is weak.

The ability to solve symbolic mathematical equations is better compared to any other software. The graphing and data analysis capabilities are up to par.

While Mathematica doesn't have the worst error checking I've seen in some programming languages, it lacks on-the-fly error checking.