Posted by Dave Oleson, Product Manager, Data Studio Last year, we unveiled a new data visualization and reporting platform for businesses—
Data Studio.
Data Studio lets you connect to all your data and turn it into beautiful, informative reports that are fully customizable, easy to understand and easy to share.
Making it easy to share data within your organization — or with the worldOne of the fundamental ideas behind Data Studio is that data should be easily accessible to anyone in an organization. We believe that as more people have access to data, better decisions will be made. With multiple data connectors in Data Studio―including CloudSQL, BigQuery, Google Sheets, and many other Google services―you can easily create dashboards from many different types of data and share them with everyone in your organization. And you can mix and match data sources within a single report.
Data Studio also offers integration with a wide variety of non-Google data sources, including a connector to SQL databases that will let you access first-party data.
Data Studio is more than just sharing reports with other people—it’s true collaboration. We used the same infrastructure as Google Docs, so you can edit reports together, in real time. This is useful as you combine data from multiple teams and need others to add analysis and context to the report.
Visualization tools to style your reports and dataIn addition to new sharing and collaboration tools, Data Studio gives you many flexible ways to present your data. Sure, there’s the usual assortment of bar charts, pie charts, and time series. But we’ve also included some new visualizations—like bullet charts—that help you communicate your progress towards a business goal.
Another advanced feature is the ability to create a heatmap using tabular data. This visualization makes it easy to instantly identify outliers within a table of data.
Data Studio also has an array of other features to help you customize how you present your data. There are a number of stylistic tools that let you design your reports to represent your specific brand. There are also interactive data controls, like a date picker and dynamic filters, that enable report editors to make reports interactive for viewers.
Getting startedThese are just a few of the tools that you can use to help others in your organization understand data. For more information, check out our
Help Center and
Community Forum.
Though not an official G Suite service,
Data Studio is currently available
globally for free. We hope it helps you share more data and make better business decisions.
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