Google Data Studio
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9.0
90%
Customizable dashboards (50)
8.7
87%
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (49)
8.2
82%
Report Formatting Templates (49)
7.9
79%
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BI Standard Reporting
8.2
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Ad-hoc Reporting
7.6
76%
Report Output and Scheduling
8.3
83%
Data Discovery and Visualization
7.7
77%
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What is Google Data Studio?
Google Data Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.
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Google Data Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.
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March 15, 2022
A great Business Intelligence tool developed by Google
I use Google Data Studio on daily basis. By using that we can figure out how many people use our systems, how many people want to play, how much they spend. We can easily do comparison analysis. We use all analytical metrics to provide it our managers to make a decision.
- It is online service. You don't need to upload an application to use it and it's free.
- It has many visualization tools.
- You can use many data sources to connect your data with Data Studio. For example Google Analytics, Google Sheets are among most popular choices for users.
- It is not that easy to learn Data Studio without tutorials and as I know Google don't have video lessons for Data Studio.
- Sometimes Data Studio can't differentiate metrics from dimensions.
- Charts sometimes don't work properly. You need to reload them again to fix errors.
March 15, 2022
Numbers to Visualization ...
We used it for making Dashboards, reports to show to the management with a great impression, as its easy to read. Its feature of converting data collected from various connectors to the graphs is fantastic. It can be integrated with almost more than 300 connectors. Reports created in Crux forms looks visually good by using different type of graphs.
- Data management
- Calculations
- Data visualization
- Interactivity
- 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.
November 10, 2021
Your First step to data visualization
I have not find any
other product that can be as useful as this in an entry level of Business intelligence,
this no cost, very easy to learn tool help me to develop new ways to see data to
take decisions that help me improve my KPIs. It's not the most powerful tool but
nevertheless it’s a first step into the Data Science World. Data Studio has opened
my eyes into a new passion on data visualization and data science.
- Data Visualization
- KPI Tracking
- Deccision Taking
- Proccessing Power
- Desing Tools
- More types of charts or Graphs
November 04, 2021
Marketing Agency Employee
We are using the Google Data Studio in our marketing department to track analytics for our own digital marketing business and for a dozen of our clients. It helps us keep things organized, track progress, and provide our clients with data to track their marketing efforts.
- Google Data connectors are simple
- Visualisations
- Syncing with other apps
- Delayed updates in data
- No excel support
- No on-premise deployment
August 20, 2021
Simple dashboards quick and easy
Google Data Studio is used across some departments in the company to create dashboards and reports to help the team have insights and analyze performance from multiple advertising campaigns. In a quick and easy way, any of our users can access the data and create charts, tables and compose dashboards for their work.
- Simple data integration from files.
- Create calculated fields using data (for metrics).
- Plot charts and tables quickly.
- Organize everything in a dashboard.
- Easy sharing.
- Data preparation.
- Custom integrations.
- Combine sources with recurrent process.
July 25, 2021
Google Data Studio is quite robust and worth a look
Google Data Studio is being used to produce reports and dashboards for use across the entire organization. We have a large number of applications on which metrics must be reported. As a Google Premier customer, Google Data Studio was the logical choice as it provides the reports and dashboards we need in a cost-effective way.
- Charting
- Multiple data sources
- reporting
- Scheduled transmission of reports
- It's reporting and dash-boarding lacks the interactivity of Tableau.
- As a developer, I find the layout and formatting options somewhat limited.
- It is somewhat difficult to organization reports and dashboards into folders.
- There seems to be no integration with any external source control provider.
July 18, 2021
Great for not-so-complex analytics and dashboards
The Google Data Studio platform provides us with the ability to perform simple analytics on various datasets in order to discover trends and present that data to management in a simple, easy-to-understand format. While first party connector support may be limited, the ability to use CSV files as an interchange format allows us to cover most systems from time and attendance to simple excel exports.
- Ease of use
- User interface / look-and-feel of reports
- Pricing (has a free option)
- CSV file support minimizes barriers to entry
- First party connector support can be improved
- Complex visualizations / datasets may not be possible
- Cannot be used on-premise, which may cause issues with data compliance
May 20, 2021
Solid software with interactive charts
Google Data Studio is an awesome tool with great graphics that we use to visualize data for client reports. Our whole organization uses this tool to some extent. We love that it is a free data visualization tool.
- I love that this tool is free.
- The reports and dashboards are very customizable.
- Pivot tables and combinations are easy.
- The platform can be slow at times.
- There can be bugs.
- Setting it up initially can be a little tough.
Google Data Studio is used across departments at our company. We have daily active users within Operations, AdOps, Product, Engineering, IT, and various Business teams. Self-service GDS dashboards are used extensively for reporting and analysis of various KPIs. We also utilize GDS for email reports. Dashboards are also shared externally with partners. GDS is easy to use for standard and ad-hoc reporting and BI insights and analysis to understand trends and performance.
- 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
- Limited data joining / merge options
- Limited ETL
- Limited calculations / regex configs
- Limited data labels and presentation reporting settings vs. alternatives
- Can be slow to update (dreaded "GDS is not available, please try later")
Google Data Studio (GDS) is used by the University to perform advanced data analysis and visualisation work across our marketing and faculty teams.
Google Analytics (GA) has been used for sometime, however until recently we haven't had an effective way of providing compelling visuals of the data from GA.
Google Analytics (GA) has been used for sometime, however until recently we haven't had an effective way of providing compelling visuals of the data from GA.
Working in the marketing team, it's imperative that we are able to articulate our data in a visual way and that is were GDS has come into its own.
- It's free to use!
- Seamless integration with GA
- A selection of connectors to import data from other channels (Facebook, LinkedIn etc)
- Having to pay for third-party connector access.
- Limited in terms of the number of recipients that can be included in the scheduled reporting.
- Lots of information on some pages making it hard to understand from time-to-time. Could be cleaner from a UX perspective.
May 01, 2021
Review Google Data Studio
Create robust and interactive marketing dashboard for free using Google Data Studio. It makes data visualization better with the help of graphs and charts. Easy GUI makes it more user friendly.
And live data connectivity provide you the feature where you can connect to real time data though this feature is slow and the refresh rate is slow but its there.
And live data connectivity provide you the feature where you can connect to real time data though this feature is slow and the refresh rate is slow but its there.
- This platform is free.
- Can connect to verity of databases easily.
- Live data connection is one of the most powerful feature which is not there in other BI tools.
- Data range filter settings are amazing.
- Excel can not be imported you have to convert it into csv file before use.
- On premise deployment facility is not available.
- Cannot handle complex relationships between datasets.
April 30, 2021
Google Data Studio: Easy to pick up, and super powerful
Google Data Studio is being utilized by our media and analytics departments. There are 3 users in our office that are fluent in using this tool. Together, we create reports for our clients to summarize performance. The reports (in view-only mode) are shared with our clients so they have an interactive way to look through reporting. Having the reporting be interactive is where the real value comes from --versus static reports like PDFs or Excel files with a finite period of data available.
- Extremely customizable. From colors to font sizes to adding images, you can make your reports look like they were specifically created for your clients.
- Constantly innovating. In the year that I have been using GDS they have released lots of new features, and it seems like they really listen to the user feedback through the customer service portal.
- Data source flexibility. You can use Excel files, Google Sheets, CSV, etc.
- Ease of onboarding. If you are familiar with Microsoft Excel, it was really intuitive to pick up without a long period of onboarding/watching tutorials.
- Once data files start getting large, it can be finicky. We currently don't have a database solution set up to use, and have been trying to use Google Sheets as our data sources, but once the Google Sheet files get large, it can affect the quality of the Google Data Studio report
- This is still a relatively new product, so there are several little bugs you will find while using it. You just have to be patient and wait for the product team to fix the issues.
- Some of the visualizations are limited. Once you get used to the full power of a tool like Excel, you run into occasions where GDS is missing a specific visualization feature you are used to seeing in Excel.
April 29, 2021
Easy and Free to use
Google Data Studio allows me to pull all the information from my Google Analytics and Google Ads and create simple reports. What I love most is that I can visualize my results on Google Data Studio. This makes sharing reports to teammates super easy. There are many templates on Google Data Studio that makes this very easy.
- Pull all the data I need from Google Analytics
- Visualize the information to create beautiful reports
- I can easily share reports with teammates
- I wish there were more templates to choose from
- I wish it was easier to pull information from other sources
- I wish there was more syncing with our ecommerce platform
April 27, 2021
Google Data Studio : Free, Convenient, Easy to Use
Google Data Studio is used both inside our organization and on behalf of clients. It's our primary reporting and visualization tool, and the primary method we communicate data to clients. Because of its robust integration capabilities and ease of use, it's our first go-to for any basic data visualization from cloud-based data.
- Free.
- Easy to use, like the rest of Google Docs.
- Integrates with hundreds of data sources.
- Calculated fields are clumsy.
- No variables/data storage.
- Not a BI/computational tool, visualization only.
April 27, 2021
Great for Tight Budgets or Simple Data Visualization
[I used Google Data Studio to] create a dashboard for each of my clients that combines all their data sources (social, ad networks, Analytics, etc.) into one easy to read report for them. I download a PDF for them to view each month, but I also send the link to the dashboard in case they want to view it or play around with the metrics. I've found that many clients are often asking for updates on the performance of the campaigns or site performance, so giving them an easy one-stop-shop where they can find all their performance data is very convenient.
- Easy to design/brand
- Native data support for all Google products such as Adwords, Search Console, and Analytics
- Constantly improving and growing
- No native support for many outside sources like Facebook or Twitter (must build own or use third party software)
- Many features that are available in Tableau or other dataviz solutions aren't available yet
- Available templates aren't styled using default colors, so you have to update the color palette of each module by hand.
- Data Score boxes are very limited in what they can report
April 27, 2021
Serves its purpose well
We make use of Google Data Studio in order to can insight into large amounts of statistical data we have stored in BigQuery. We run reports and generate some visualizations to allow people to better understand the data. This allows non-technical people to get the benefits of the data without too much trouble.
- Ability to define reports.
- Report against a large amount of data quickly.
- Data visualizations.
- More difficult for non-technical people to use.
- It can be a little cumbersome to get everything setup and running.
- The documentation could be a lot better.
April 27, 2021
Disappointing
We used Google Data Studio to create monthly reports for our clients. Since it's directly within Google, there aren't any issues with reliable data connections. It was a solution to creating monthly analytics reports that we could easily export for our clients.
- Reliable connection to Google Analytics.
- Various ways to display data.
- Options for custom reports.
- Takes a long time to set up.
- Not user friendly.
- Not enough template reports that are helpful.
April 26, 2021
Google Data Studio made our reporting WAY easier!
We use Google Data Studio to send our clients weekly and monthly analytics reports for their social media profiles. It has made this process significantly easier and less time-consuming since we are able to schedule the reports to send automatically.
- Easy to schedule automatic emails
- Completely customizable
- Can connect to almost anything to pull data
- Honestly Google Data Studio does really well. The improvements I would like to see have to do with connectors, not Google Data Studio itself.
April 22, 2021
Google Data Studio is 👌
We are in the beginning stages of implementing Google Data Studio. It is currently being used in the Marketing department. We have connected our google apps, Google Analytics, search console, Google Ads to Data Studio. In marketing, it is giving us automated reports from all of those sources. We can combine the data sources for great-looking dashboards. We have run into issues with adding our site database data to Data Studio, which has been a hang-up for us to fully implement the software across all departments.
- Dashboards that combine data sources.
- Customization with design and branding.
- Easy to use interface. Simple to get started with.
- This is an issue that our Dev team is dealing with, so I can't speak too much to it, but we have had issues integrating our database with GDS. Those issues have held us back from fully using GDS the way we wanted to.
- Missing data can be a hassle to make look good on a dashboard.
- Adoption has been slow across my team, they haven't seen the value the same way I do.
April 11, 2021
Data Studio is a very useful tool for every digital marketer and company that wants to keep track on their online performance
As a digital marketing agency, we use Data studio to give on-demand reports to our different customers. We created a template where they can log in and see every metric regarding their online activity and campaign performance. It has been very useful because we can generate quick reports with highlights of each website performance and each of our clients can go into more detail using their links to the data studio reports.
- Reports on demand. My clients can log in at any moment and adjust parameters to see details on particular dates or periods of time.
- Templates can be created very easily and with a lot of detail.
- Connection to Google Ads is a very easy way to track campaign performance, by showing the most important metrics.
- The amount of information you can add to the reports is great, you can go into as much detail as you need in regards to website online performance.
- Connection to social media would be a great addition.
- New GA4 uses different kinds of metrics or names to the same metrics, so it has been an issue when trying to use the same template for new customers.
- Having a just view option for non-Gmail users would be very helpful so my clients can open the link and see the report even though they are not Gmail users.
April 08, 2021
One of the amazing reporting tools from Google
We use it for our Marketing reports, specifically for our Mobile Apps Reports and Google Analytics reports. We use this report to understand the Mobile App downloads (which country had more downloads, which app had more uninstalls, etc.) and Visitors information on our webpages. Currently we use it in our Marketing department and we are planning to implement in other departments soon.
- Ease of use: All it takes to create a report is just drag and drop the features/tools and get the report instantly. One great advantage compared to other similar tools such as power bi or Tableau is sharing the report instantly.
- Sharing the Report: You can share the report within your organization and outside the organization with just an URL. You don't need to be a Google user to open the report.
- Embed the Report on a Sharepoint with just a code. Never thought it would be so easy.
- Seamless connectivity with Google Products.
- As this is a free tool, definitely you would miss some features when compared with other BI tools ( for example prediction capabilities etc).
September 10, 2020
A Good, Free Tool to Aggregate and Visualize Data for Client Reporting
We use Google Data Studio to create reports for our clients using several data sources, including Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Facebook Insights, Facebook/Instagram Ads. It allows us to easily customize how we show the data from the various sources and allows us to filter, highlight, and customize the color palette.
- Combines data sources into one report.
- It's free.
- Filtering is easy.
- It's intuitive if you understand analytics and ads.
- Allows you to send automated reports from your own email rather than from Google.
May 06, 2020
Google Data Studio
Google Data Studio was mainly used by the Analytics team to create Dashboards using data from Google Analytics. These Dashboards were shared with the product team, CPO, business team, CBO, marketing team, CMO, and other teams also through which the decisions were made by the product, marketing, and business teams.
It helps to see the trends of conversion, engagement, funnels, flows, etc. and thus check whether we need changes in product, marketing, or business strategies.
It helps to see the trends of conversion, engagement, funnels, flows, etc. and thus check whether we need changes in product, marketing, or business strategies.
- Easy integration with Google Analytics
- Very easy to use and implement.
- Training easily available online and google training academy
- Variety of features to use
- From features point of view, still a lot has to be done
- In comparison to its competitors like Tableau, Data Studio still needs to have advanced features
April 24, 2020
Perfect Free visualization tool!
We are currently using it in our marketing department to visualize data from our websites.
We connected the platform with Google Analytics, so we are able to create graphs and dashboards super easily, compared to exporting the data and creating graphs in PowerPoint as it was done before. It allows us to focus on the data, rather than fetching the information.
We connected the platform with Google Analytics, so we are able to create graphs and dashboards super easily, compared to exporting the data and creating graphs in PowerPoint as it was done before. It allows us to focus on the data, rather than fetching the information.
- General user friendliness of the platform.
- Straight forward integration with Google Analytics - no table manipulations needed.
- Easy to add filters on a page or graph level.
- Integration with Facebook ads and LinkedIn ads is not super easy. We need to go through a third party tool.
- Sometimes it takes time to load the data.
- Doesn't work super well on all browsers - although never had issues using Chrome.
March 13, 2020
Google Data Studio: all in one package
Google Data Studio is a Suite wich combines relevant data of web, app, campaign, and search. So it is used across the whole organization. With a good visualization, it is possible to manage all online data.
- Good visualization
- Perfect for all Google data tools.
- Ease to integrate
- Data privacy, GDPR
- Expensive for companies.
- Need to be used with other Google products.