Data Runs Deep Blog

Being ever aware of the brutal mundanity of existence on this lonely blue rock, I have firmly believed for many years that the secret to not feeling too down in the dumps about everything in genera

With so many choices available in Data Studio it can be difficult to know where to start when building your first dashboard.

Google Data Studio is an amazingly flexible tool which we use pretty much all the time here at Data Runs Deep.

A while back now I made a post about how to report against targets in Google Data Studio. If you haven't read that you can find it here:

I've been back in the office for a month and this is what I remember from SUPERWEEK and Budapest.

Last week was Superweek, the annual web analytics conference high in the mountains in Hungary.

The ability to add filter controls to your charts in Data Studio is one of its coolest features. It would be even cooler if you could load a report with a filter control and a particular option pre selected. As far as I can tell, this is not currently possible, but here is a work around you might useful.

Earlier this year Google stopped giving users a choice when they wanted to create a mobile Property to use the regular Google Analytics platform or if they wanted to use Google Analytics for Firebase (henceforth just called Firebase). Now you only get the choice of creating a Firebase Property, and it left me wondering why on earth would they do that.

The Data Runs Deep logo has had a bit of a facelift for the week, taking inspiration from the Grateful Dead's logo that adorns everything from VW ca

Be careful of tracking additional user info, as it may constitute PII. That said, with BigQuery you have a lot of options.