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Data Storytelling with Google Looker Studio

By : Sireesha Pulipati
Book Image

Data Storytelling with Google Looker Studio

By: Sireesha Pulipati

Overview of this book

Presenting data visually makes it easier for organizations and individuals to interpret and analyze information. Looker Studio is an easy-to-use, collaborative tool that enables you to transform your data into engaging visualizations. This allows you to build and share dashboards that help monitor key performance indicators, identify patterns, and generate insights to ultimately drive decisions and actions. Data Storytelling with Looker Studio begins by laying out the foundational design principles and guidelines that are essential to creating accurate, effective, and compelling data visualizations. Next, you’ll delve into features and capabilities of Looker Studio – from basic to advanced – and explore their application with examples. The subsequent chapters walk you through building dashboards with a structured three-stage process called the 3D approach using real-world examples that’ll help you understand the various design and implementation considerations. This approach involves determining the objectives and needs of the dashboard, designing its key components and layout, and developing each element of the dashboard. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of the storytelling approach and be able to create data stories of your own using Looker Studio.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1 – Data Storytelling Concepts
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Part 2 – Looker Studio Features and Capabilities
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Part 3 – Building Data Stories with Looker Studio

Google Analytics primer

This section provides a brief overview of GA concepts and its built-in reports. If you are already familiar with GA, you can skip this section and move on to the next. GA is a web Analytics service that tracks website (and mobile application) traffic and provides tools to analyze it. It is part of the Google Marketing Platform brand and is primarily used for digital marketing and search engine optimization purposes. For instance, it helps you measure site and campaign performance, understand your customer demographics and device attributes, and so on.

GA is a user-friendly and free tool, the latest version of which is called GA 4, or GA4 for short. GA4 supersedes Universal Analytics (that is, GA3), which was introduced in 2012 and will reach end-of-life by June 2023. At the time of writing, Google Universal Analytics is still used by millions of sites and applications. Compared to the Universal Analytics version, GA4 uses a completely new data and measurement...