Data Studio

Here’s what you usually need: Access to the platforms that is connected to Data Studio. Edit access to the dashboard and data sources. A cool head. Plenty of patience. Lots of breaks (don’t be too hard on yourself here).

There’s little we can do about default aggregation when using Google Analytics data. It’s the three things certain in life, right? Death, taxes, and auto aggregation in Google Analytics data.

We know that colours are a powerful communication tool. Our eyes are drawn to patterns and colours which makes data easier to analyse. With that said, Emojis add another layer of visual communication that sometimes words cannot portray. 

It’s amusing how we choose to make metrics optional. That’s not what we want to do, is it? We want everything! All of it!

Hello there!  In this first ever series of Up Your Data Studio Game, we bring you ways to use conditional formatting in your dashboard. What’s conditional formatting you may ask? It’s similar to what’s available in Excel: formatting the cell when the condition is met.

There is no shortage of COVID-19 dashboards in our industry so don’t worry we’re not throwing another one into the ring.

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While working part time at Data Runs Deep, I also spend my time studying my Master of Analytics at RMIT university, where this semester I completed the subject Data Visualisation.

A while back I posted a blog explaining how to create custom conversion rates and funnels