CoCalc
Your best choice for teaching remote scientific courses.
CoCalc vs Looker:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Looker
Looker is a powerful BI tool that allows data analysts to create interactive dashboards, explore and analyze data from multiple sources with ease, and ensure robust data governance.
CoCalc
Looker
Setup
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
Fully managed (setup in hours)
Can you self-host?
Can you self-host?
You can self-host (setup in hours)
You can self-host (setup in hours)
Features
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Jupyter-compatible
Jupyter-compatible
Programming languages
Programming languages
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
SQL
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Provided file storage
Provided file storage
What kind of data visualization can you do?
What kind of data visualization can you do?
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
UI for building charts
Reactivity
Reactivity
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
Reactivity with caveats
No notebook scheduling
Notebook scheduling is built in
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Environments are reproducible by default
Unknown
Version history is built in
No version history
Multiple editors at the same time
Multiple editors at the same time
Comments
Comments
No support for comments
No support for comments
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
View notebooks in a list
View notebooks in a list
Licensing
License
License
Open-source (GNU AGPLv3)
Proprietary
Price
Price
Free tier
Pay for compute
Free tier
Pay for compute