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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

Creating report templates

Report templates allow you to share your reports widely, outside your organization, and with the public. Templates allow others to use your reports with their own data. In Chapter 4, Google Looker Studio Overview, you learned about what report templates are, where to find them, and how to create reports from a template. In this section, you will learn how to create and share a report template.

Template creation is a very simple process and any report can be turned into a template just by adding /preview to the end of its URL. However, there are a few things that need to be kept in mind and followed through to ensure its wider utility.

First and foremost, templates should be based on standard schema data sources or connectors. This makes sure that others will be able to use their own data with the template and create reports from it as needed. Templates made out of non-standard and custom data sources have limited use, if any. You can either share your...