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Looker Studio
Formerly Google Data Studio

Overview

What is Looker Studio?

Looker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.

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Recent Reviews

Best Analytical tool

8 out of 10
March 29, 2023
Incentivized
As data analysts, we have to create the report and dashboard in GDS. So, we have integrated some data sources like Google Analytics, …
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Popular Features

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  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (49)
    9.3
    93%
  • Customizable dashboards (50)
    9.2
    92%
  • Report sharing and collaboration (50)
    6.5
    65%
  • Report Formatting Templates (49)
    5.1
    51%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
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Pricing

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What is Looker Studio?

Looker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.5
Avg 8.4

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

6.3
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

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Data Discovery and Visualization

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Product Details

What is Looker Studio?

Looker Studio, formerly Google Data Studio, is a data visualization platform from Google that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.

Looker Studio vs. Looker


Looker Studio is a part of Google's Looker Suite for business intelligence. Looker Studio is a self-serve BI solution where less technical users can create charts and reports, while Looker is a complete, enterprise BI platform, where technical users can build complex models that consider every aspect of the business. Looker Studio offers both free and pro versions, while Looker is not available for free.

Looker Studio Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Looker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.

Reviewers rate Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Looker Studio are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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April 26, 2021

Google Data Studio made our reporting WAY easier!

Janaye Steadman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Janaye Steadman
Director of Social Media
Markit23 (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
For our purposes (sending and receiving consistent reports) it is perfect. We use it specifically for social media, and the only drawback is that I can't always pull all the data I want (for example, I wanted to know how many applications we had on Facebook, but this is not a metric provided by Facebook, therefore I couldn't put it in a Google Data Studio report either).
Looker Studio Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
50%
5.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
70%
7.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
80%
8.0
Predictive Analytics
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (3)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
90%
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
90%
9.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
72.5%
7.3
Drill-down analysis
90%
9.0
Formatting capabilities
100%
10.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
N/A
N/A
Report sharing and collaboration
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
60%
6.0
Publish to Web
100%
10.0
Publish to PDF
100%
10.0
Report Versioning
N/A
N/A
Report Delivery Scheduling
100%
10.0
Delivery to Remote Servers
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Reduced time needed for reporting
  • Simplified process for my team
  • Helps keep reporting consistent
Alternatives Considered
At this point I am unable to have Facebook ads data in the Agorapulse reports (although I can customize them now). If at any point I am able to include this data I'm my Agorapulse reports I will switch to that so that I. Not having to use several different software programs.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
2
I am the COO of the company, I oversee the day-to-day operations of the company, reporting, and analytics.
The second team member that uses Google Data Studios is my assistant. She helps with getting reporting to clients, filling out reports, and other tasks.
Support Headcount Required
1
I am the main person to support issues with Google Data Studio. Everything I have learned along the way - while there are slight similarities to Excel or other software which I had experience with, learning the nuances of connectors has been the most challenging. For setting up a report, there is little prior experience or skill needed, as much of it is drag and drop.
Business Processes Supported
  • Automated reporting
  • Quick overview of key metrics
  • Completely customizable reports
Innovative Uses
  • Each report can be customized with its own branding
  • To create reports representing different time periods
Future Planned Uses
  • There are no additional ways that I anticipate at this time. It is for reporting, and that is what we use it for.
Likelihood to Renew
9
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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