Those days are over when you have to spend hours exporting, cleaning, and formatting data in Excel. Good news, in Looker Studio, you can create a beautiful live-report report and supercharge your analytics
In case you're curious about Looker Studio: it's a web-based dashboard tool from Google, and It's absolutely free!
It provides a blank canvas to design your report from scratch or import it from Looker Studio Gallery to kick-start your development. There are no fixed columns or widgets sizes, and you can develop a single-page report or page-based report just like Google Slide or Microsoft PowerPoint
Once created, you have a real-time report available and up to date anytime, and you can even schedule exporting as PDF, delivered to you or your clients.
Looker Studio can combine multiple sources in real time and doesn’t require scheduling data refresh. As of Sept 2020, there are 18 data connectors available from Google and 280 connectors by Google Partners.
It’s effortless sharing a Looker Studio report, and you have two ways to share reports. One for individual reporting and others for community reporting.
Report Sharing – Must have a Gmail account to view or edit
Can view
Can edit
Link sharing – Doesn’t require a Gmail account to view or edit
Anyone on the Internet can find and view
Anyone on the Internet can find edit
Anyone with the link can view
Anyone with the link can edit
Off – only specific people can access
The advance formula is created within the calculated field, and it helps you create custom formulas such as New Users vs. Returning Users
Blending lets you create a report/chart based on multiple data sources. For example, you can combine the Impression from Google Ads and Facebook Ads
Besides amazing Google Data Gallery, there are 19 pre-made templates that you can choose and customize.
It’s a great way to bring an existing report or doc or even a live webpage to your Looker Studio.
As I mentioned earlier, you can download the Looker Studio report in PDF or schedule exporting to your clients or yourself
It’s completely free, and if you own data, you can create an amazing report