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Step-By-Step Tutorial on Google


Data Studio
Louai Nasser May 3, 2019

Every marketer and advertiser will tell you that efficient data collection and analysis is
key to the success of current and future social campaigns. In order to justify a new idea
for a campaign or to analyse the success and performance of a previous campaign,
data plays an incredibly important role. However, collecting and analysing your data in
a clear and effective way has proven to be a tricky task for many advertisers. That’s
where Google Data Studio comes into the mix.

What is Google Data Studio?


Google Data Studio is a free data visualisation tool that allows you to create clear and
engaging data reports from a plethora of sources such as Google Analytics, Google
Sheets, Google Search Console, YouTube and much more!

It helps you produce reports that are easy to understand, enabling you to gain key
insights from your data and performances with great precision and accuracy. Data
Studio also offers advertisers the opportunity to visualise their data in a variety of ways
including charts, graphs, bar charts, tables, heat maps, scorecards, area charts and lots
more.

Furthermore, this impressive tool will also allow you to fully customise your data reports
and dashboards aesthetic preferences. You can change your reports’ background,
fonts, images, objects and other customisable features, so that your data reports and
dashboards are completely tailored to your desires.

Don’t feel like designing your own report or dashboard? No problem, Data Studio also
offers pre-built customisable templates that you can leverage in order to quickly get to
work with an easily set up report or dashboard.

There’s also the possibility to share your report or dashboard with a member of your
team, giving you the chance to collaborate on the data collection and analysis process.

Setting Up Google Data Studio


Create account or login
To begin, visit datastudio.google.com and sign in with the same account that you use to
log in to Google Analytics. Here’s what your Google Data Studio portal will look like. At
the top you’ll find previously created reports that you can continue working on or the
option to make from scratch. Check out the menu bar on the left in order to access the
Reports & Data Sources sections and more.

Creating a new report


As can be seen in the image above, you can easily create a new report by clicking on
the white box with the ‘+’ sign on it. Once you have selected this option, an empty white
page will appear.

If you wish to quickly create a data report from Google Analytics, Search Console,
Google Ads, Youtube Analytics, Google Sheets, a combination of Google Analytics &
Google Ads or Google BigQuery, you can use one of the Data Studio’s pre-built
customisable report templates.
Connecting your data
Once you’ve selected your report, click on the ‘Create New Data Source’ button. This
will enable you to connect your report to over 18 Google data sources as well as 135
partner data sources.

After selecting your desired Data Source, you’ll need to connect it to your Google Data
Studio account. For example, if for this report you would like to visualise some Google
Analytics data, connect your Analytics account to your Data Studio. When you’ve done
this, you’ll be able to select your account, property and view, as can be seen in the
image below.
In the next step, a spreadsheet of fields and/or metrics that your Data Source is
tracking, in this case Google Analytics, will appear. If there is a particular field you
would like to add, click on the ‘Add A Field’ button. When you’re ready to proceed,
press on the ‘Create Report’ button.

Customising your report


Once you’ve created your report, you’ll see that an empty, blank grid appears which
you can use to add different kinds of visualisations to. However, before you start adding
your data visualisation onto the report, you may want to begin by customising your
layout, theme and design according to your preferences.

Is one Data Source not enough and is there a need to add another one to your report?
No problem, just click on the Resources tab on the menu bar at the top of your screen
and then select the ‘Manage added data sources’ option. Then just click on ‘Add a Data
Source’ and choose the Data Source you would also like to connect to your account
(e.g. Google Ads or Youtube Analytics).

Adding and editing data visualisation


This is where it starts to get interesting.

Google Data Studio offers a myriad of different options and designs in which you can
visualise your collected data. As has already been mentioned, there are dozens of
different options including pie charts, graphs, tables, scatter charts and a lot more.

Want to add some text or images to your report? That’s also easily possible.

To pick your visualisation method, click on ‘Insert’ on the top menu bar and select the
type that you want your data to be presented in. You’ll see that once you’ve added your
visualisation, you can enlarge or make it smaller by dragging it from one of the corners.
You can also position it wherever you want.
Now that you’ve selected your type of visualisation, it’s time to edit the data source,
dimension, metric and data range. In addition to these settings, you can also sort your
data in a particular order, filter your data and edit the visualisation’s style and layout.
And that’s it! Want to create more visualisations for your report? Go wild! Add as many
as you want using different kinds of visualisation methods in order to create an
appealing report that is pleasant on the eye and clear enough to understand and draw
key insights from.

It may seem a tad complicated at first, but we guarantee that once you’ve familiarised
yourself with Google Data Studio a bit, you’ll start loving this data visualising tool as
much as us!

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