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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

Adding community visualizations

Community visualizations are custom visualizations developed by third-party developers and partners. They are available from the Looker Studio Report Gallery, as well as in the report designer. To display data using community visualizations in a report, they need to be allowed access to the associated data source(s). This option is enabled by default for any data source that uses Owner’s credentials. It can be turned off from the data source editor page. Community visualizations cannot be used with data sources that use Viewer’s credentials.

From the toolbar, select the Community visualizations and components icon. You can choose from the featured visualizations or click on + Explore more to select from the full collection in the gallery:

Figure 7.35 – Adding community visualizations to the report

You are then prompted to grant consent for the report to display the data in the visualization. When consent...