DataStudio Basics Google Professional Data Engineer GCP
- It turns data into dashboards and reports
- Output is informative, easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.
- Has drag and drop report editor
- Offers charts as line, bar, and pie charts, geo maps, area and bubble graphs,
- Provides paginated data tables, pivot tables, and more.
- Make interactive reports with viewer filters and date range controls.
- Include links and clickable images
- Has dimension for xaxis and metrics for yaxis
- does not allow aggregations on metrics
- Filter controls give viewers a way to focus on subsets of the data.
- Caching types – query cache, pre-fetch cache.
- Query cache cannot be turned off.
- Pre-fetch cache can be turned off and is valid only for owner’s credentials for data access.
- Can create new fields using formulas or functions and add them to charts.
- Annotate and brand reports with text and images.
- Apply styles and color themes
- To view a Data Studio report, a browser and an internet connection is needed.
- To create or edit a file in Data Studio, you must:
- be signed into a Google account
- be in one of the supported countries
Connect to data
Connect to data sets as
- Google Marketing Platform products, including Google Ads, Analytics, Display & Video 360, Search Ads 360
- Google consumer products, such as Sheets, YouTube, and Search Console
- Databases, including BigQuery, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
- Flat files via CSV file upload and Google Cloud Storage
- Social media platforms such as Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter
Share and collaborate
- easy to share with individuals, teams, or the world.
- Invite others to view or edit reports
- With sharing can work together in real time as a team.
Data Studio Community Visualizations
- It allows to build and use own custom visualizations
- Flexibility to use any visualization library and custom JavaScript and CSS.
- define style elements
- Use event driven model to posts data and style information
- Data and style options are defined in a config JSON.
- The data configuration sets the number of dimensions and metrics the visualization supports. The style configuration defines style selectors in property panel.
- The interaction configuration defines how chart interactions work for a community visualization. This is optional.
Writing the visualization code:
- Data Studio helper library is the interface between you and Data Studio.
- To use the library, provide a callback function that renders the visualization.
Host:
- To load a community visualization, all of resources must be publicly available in a Google Cloud Storage bucket.
- Create a bucket and upload files using either the web interface or the gsutil.
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