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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

Looker Studio Report Designer

A report is the core element of Google Looker Studio and allows you to build data stories through visual components. It is a collection of visuals that enables you to monitor key performance metrics, describe trends and relationships, and explain relevant phenomena. In the previous chapter, you learned how to access Looker Studio and gained an understanding of its major entities – data sources, connectors, reports, and explorers. Now, you are ready to use it to build reports. Whether it is creating a view-at-a-glance dashboard depicting the overall performance of a business or a detailed report on a specific function or problem, the Looker Studio Report Designer provides a flexible, feature-rich, and easy-to-use interface.

This chapter lays out various components of the Report Designer and how you can use its key capabilities. By the end of this chapter, you will have gained an understanding of the major components of Looker Studio’s...