Anaconda vs. Looker Studio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Anaconda
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Anaconda provides access to the foundational open-source Python and R packages used in modern AI, data science, and machine learning. These enterprise-grade solutions enable corporate, research, and academic institutions around the world to harness open-source for competitive advantage and research. Anaconda also provides enterprise-grade security to open-source software through the Premium Repository.
$0
per month
Looker Studio
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Looker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.
$9
per month per user per project
Pricing
AnacondaLooker Studio
Editions & Modules
Free Tier
$0
per month
Starter Tier
$9
per month
Business Tier
$50
per month per user
Enterprise Tier
60.00+
per month per user
Looker Studio Pro
$9
per month per user per project
Looker Studio
No charge
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AnacondaLooker Studio
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
AnacondaLooker Studio
Platform Connectivity
Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
9.3
25 Ratings
11% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Connect to Multiple Data Sources9.822 Ratings00 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection9.721 Ratings00 Ratings
MDM Integration9.614 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Exploration
Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
8.5
25 Ratings
2% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Visualization9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Preparation
Comparison of Data Preparation features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
9.1
26 Ratings
11% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment8.823 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Encryption9.719 Ratings00 Ratings
Built-in Processors9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Data Modeling
Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
9.2
24 Ratings
9% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools9.023 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Machine Learning8.921 Ratings00 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery9.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Model Deployment
Comparison of Model Deployment features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
9.5
21 Ratings
11% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Flexible Model Publishing Options10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
-
Ratings
Looker Studio
7.7
53 Ratings
8% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.337 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.952 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.151 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
-
Ratings
Looker Studio
7.1
52 Ratings
11% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.444 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.248 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings3.224 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.451 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
-
Ratings
Looker Studio
8.0
52 Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.246 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.645 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings6.336 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.818 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
-
Ratings
Looker Studio
7.2
51 Ratings
12% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.651 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.348 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings5.026 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
AnacondaLooker Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(38 ratings)
8.9
(54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.5
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(9 ratings)
6.7
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
AnacondaLooker Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
Anaconda
I have asked all my juniors to work with Anaconda and Pycharm only, as this is the best combination for now. Coming to use cases: 1. When you have multiple applications using multiple Python variants, it is a really good tool instead of Venv (I never like it). 2. If you have to work on multiple tools and you are someone who needs to work on data analytics, development, and machine learning, this is good. 3. If you have to work with both R and Python, then also this is a good tool, and it provides support for both.
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Google
Looker Studio is well-suited for those wanting to analyze web/site data and performance quickly. It is simple enough to learn/use for quick report-building or drilling into data. Looker Studio is easier to use/understand than the GA4 console and thus has a better UI/UX. It is an efficient tool for fast, simple data needs—especially for team members with limited analytical capabilities and knowledge.
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Pros
Anaconda
  • Anaconda is a one-stop destination for important data science and programming tools such as Jupyter, Spider, R etc.
  • Anaconda command prompt gave flexibility to use and install multiple libraries in Python easily.
  • Jupyter Notebook, a famous Anaconda product is still one of the best and easy to use product for students like me out there who want to practice coding without spending too much money.
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Google
  • Self-service
  • Easy to use, point and click
  • Little to no training required
  • Easy to share internally and externally
  • Rich visualizations
  • Canned reports
  • Easy to copy/paste/dupe existing reports
  • Ability to join data sets
  • Easy integration with various data sources
  • Flexible data integrations, including lowest common denominator (CSV, XLS, G-Sheets)
  • Wide range of APIs
  • Secure / authentication via Google SSO
  • Easy to share / re-assign ownership of reports and data sources
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Cons
Anaconda
  • It can have a cloud interface to store the work.
  • Compatible for large size files.
  • I used R Studio for building Machine Learning models, Many times when I tried to run the entire code together the software would crash. It would lead to loss of data and changes I made.
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Google
  • Few functionalities are very exclusive only for data studio.
  • It's time taking to load data and at the same time only single Data source can be connected.
  • When editing the reports you have to switch between Edit and View mode to see how does the change looks like.
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Likelihood to Renew
Anaconda
It's really good at data processing, but needs to grow more in publishing in a way that a non-programmer can interact with. It also introduces confusion for programmers that are familiar with normal Python processes which are slightly different in Anaconda such as virtualenvs.
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Google
It is the simplest and least expensive way for us to automate our reporting at this time. I like the ability to customize literally everything about each report, and the ability to send out reports automatically in emails. The only issue we have been having recently is a technical glitch in the automatic email report. Sadly, there is almost no support for this tool from Google, but is also free, so that is important to take into consideration
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Usability
Anaconda
I am giving this rating because I have been using this tool since 2017, and I was in college at that time. Initially, I hesitated to use it as I was not very aware of the workings of Python and how difficult it is to manage its dependency from project to project. Anaconda really helped me with that. The first machine-learning model that I deployed on the Live server was with Anaconda only. It was so managed that I only installed libraries from the requirement.txt file, and it started working. There was no need to manually install cuda or tensor flow as it was a very difficult job at that time. Graphical data modeling also provides tools for it, and they can be easily saved to the system and used anywhere.
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Google
Google Data Studio has a clean interface that follows a lot of UX best practices. It is fairly easy to pick up the first time you use it, and there is a lot of documentation on line to help troubleshoot, if needed
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Support Rating
Anaconda
Anaconda provides fast support, and a large number of users moderate its online community. This enables any questions you may have to be answered in a timely fashion, regardless of the topic. The fact that it is based in a Python environment only adds to the size of the online community.
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Google
I give it a lower support rating because it seems like our Dev team hasn't gotten the support they need to set up our database to connect. Seems like we hit a roadblock and the project got put on pause for dev. That sucks for me because it is harder to get the dev team to focus on it if they don't get the help they need to set it up.
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Alternatives Considered
Anaconda
I have experience using RStudio oustide of Anaconda. RStudio can be installed via anaconda, but I like to use RStudio separate from Anaconda when I am worin in R. I tend to use Anaconda for python and RStudio for working in R. Although installing libraries and packages can sometimes be tricky with both RStudio and Anaconda, I like installing R packages via RStudio. However, for anything python-related, Anaconda is my go to!
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Google
The free version of Looker Studio is still better than the leading enterprise-embedded BI tools, despite its weaknesses. The leading embedded BI platforms have terrible visualizations that can be spotted a mile away. They are also primarily locked to a grid, making it very hard to fully customize. The price point is also a major deterrent, since users end up paying for lots of features they might never use. Looker Studio has weaknesses on the blending and modeling side, but we've been able to get by via connection to GBQ and transformation done in dbt.
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Return on Investment
Anaconda
  • It has helped our organization to work collectively faster by using Anaconda's collaborative capabilities and adding other collaboration tools over.
  • By having an easy access and immediate use of libraries, developing times has decreased more than 20 %
  • There's an enormous data scientist shortage. Since Anaconda is very easy to use, we have to be able to convert several professionals into the data scientist. This is especially true for an economist, and this my case. I convert myself to Data Scientist thanks to my econometrics knowledge applied with Anaconda.
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Google
  • Free, so the only investment is time
  • Because it doesn't have native support of non-Google sources, it can cost more money than Tableau
  • The time spent formatting the templates or building connectors can have a negative impact on ROI
  • As a agency, charging for the reporting service is profitable after the first month or two after building the dashboard.
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