Название: Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizen's Survival Guide
Автор: Lee Hurst
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2020
Страниц: 419
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 24.6 MB

Learn how to easily transform your data into engaging, interactive visual reports!

Data is no longer the sole domain of tech professionals and scientists. Whether in our personal, business, or community lives, data is rapidly increasing in both importance and sheer volume. The ability to visualize all kinds of data is now within reach for anyone with a computer and an internet connection. Google Data Studio, quickly becoming the most popular free tool in data visualization, offers users a flexible, powerful way to transform private and public data into interactive knowledge that can be easily shared and understood. Hands On With Google Data Studio teaches you how to visualize your data today and produce professional quality results quickly and easily.

No previous experience is required to get started right away―all you need is this guide, a Gmail account, and a little curiosity to access and visualize data just like large businesses and organizations. Clear, step-by-step instructions help you identify business trends, turn budget data into a report, assess how your websites or business listings are performing, analyze public data, and much more. Practical examples and expert tips are found throughout the text to help you fully understand and apply your new knowledge to a wide array of real-world scenarios. This engaging, reader-friendly guide will enable you to:

Use Google Data Studio to access various types of data, from your own personal data to public sources
Build your first data set, navigate the Data Studio interface, customize reports, and share your work
Learn the fundamentals of data visualization, personal data accessibility, and open data API's
Harness the power of publicly accessible data services including Google’s recently released Data Set Search
Add banners, logos, custom graphics, and color palettes

What You Will Learn:
This book provides a practical guide to many of the steps in the data life cycle. You’ll learn how to find data, connect to data services, retrieve data, and study the basics of data preparation. We’ll cover the basics of report design as well as using reports for analysis and insight discovery. And, of course, you’ll learn all about using Data Studio as a tool for data visualization, analysis, and communication. Throughout most of this book, we’ll use a basic cooking analogy to guide you through the steps of creating reports and applications. We’ll usually start with the finished product so that you can see the main components used in each example, and we’ll then proceed to re-create the example.

Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizens Survival Guide is a must-have resource for anyone starting their data visualization journey, from individuals, consultants, and small business owners to large business and organization managers and leaders.