Top 7 Looker Studio tutorials

Top 7 Looker Studio tutorials

One of the main objectives of our startup is to help small and medium businesses with understanding of their data and businesses overall. Owing to marketing reporting automation we can do it. 

We sell as report templates, as unique customized reports. Along with that, we also specialize in educational content like video tutorials, articles and educational courses in Data Visualization. We visualize data using Looker Studio and we are happy to spread our knowledge with you. 

This is why we decided to dedicate this article to top Looker Studio tutorials that we have, to make you more acquainted with our agency and services.

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1. Fast data blending

In this article I am sharing a life-saving trick – fast data blending that will take you not more than 2 minutes to set up. Are you intrigued? Check out the article!

By the way, if you want to get a profound knowledge about data blending, there is a trilogy of tutorials – check out here part 1, part 2 and part 3.

2. Filter by email

One of the Looker Studio features not many people know about is filter by email. In fact, this allows you to show only a certain part of data to certain users who have access to the dashboard based on their emails. In this article you will get to know how to prepare your data and set up this filter. 

3. Optional metrics feature

Optional metrics is an extremely useful feature in Looker Studio and if you still don’t know how to use it, you need to check out this article! This feature allows you to add more than one metric to the chart and manually choose which one to choose. Since you use optional metrics, you don’t need to create many charts with the same dimension and different metrics anymore!

4. Extracting week from date

We have published various tutorials about calculated fields in Looker Studio. Extracting week from date is useful when you want to show the week’s full name, not using ISO Week. Read this article to know 2 ways of doing it. 

5. How to replace PROPER formula?

People who work with Google Sheets are surely familiar with the PROPER formula. It is a game-changing formula when it comes to capitalizing text and getting rid of underscores. This one is a great function for GA4 to show the event name field in a more common view, starting with a capital letter. Check out this article to know how you can do it in Looker Studio.

6. How to use Google Sheets with Looker Studio?

Two tools that are mostly inseparable speaking about data visualization are Google Sheets and Looker Studio. In this article we tell how to connect Google Sheets to Looker Studio, how to transform data and make your data in Looker Studio be presented correctly. 

7.Copying element styles

Data visualization is about combining design and analytics, presenting data in an understandable and attractive way. That is why you need to pay a lot of attention to the style of the dashboard. One of the tricks you may need is copying element styles. You can apply one style to all the charts of the dashboard and it will save you a plenty of time. Check out the tutorial here!

If you want to have your report ready in 5 minutes without learning data visualization and any extra effort, we are here to help you! Check out our template store – you will surely find something for yourself!

Hope you liked this article! I would be happy to hear from you, what Looker Studio tutorials would you like to see in our blog and YouTube?