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E-raamat: Hands On With Google Data Studio - A Data Citizen`s Survival Guide: A Data Citizen's Survival Guide [Wiley Online]

  • Formaat: 432 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2020
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1119616239
  • ISBN-13: 9781119616238
  • Wiley Online
  • Hind: 42,29 €*
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  • Formaat: 432 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2020
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1119616239
  • ISBN-13: 9781119616238

Learn how to easily transform your data into engaging, interactive visual reports!

Data is no longer the sole domain of tech professionals and scientists. Whether in our personal, business, or community lives, data is rapidly increasing in both importance and sheer volume. The ability to visualize all kinds of data is now within reach for anyone with a computer and an internet connection. Google Data Studio, quickly becoming the most popular free tool in data visualization, offers users a flexible, powerful way to transform private and public data into interactive knowledge that can be easily shared and understood. Hands On With Google Data Studio teaches you how to visualize your data today and produce professional quality results quickly and easily. 

No previous experience is required to get started right away—all you need is this guide, a Gmail account, and a little curiosity to access and visualize data just like large businesses and organizations. Clear, step-by-step instructions help you identify business trends, turn budget data into a report, assess how your websites or business listings are performing, analyze public data, and much more. Practical examples and expert tips are found throughout the text to help you fully understand and apply your new knowledge to a wide array of real-world scenarios. This engaging, reader-friendly guide will enable you to:

  • Use Google Data Studio to access various types of data, from your own personal data to public sources
  • Build your first data set, navigate the Data Studio interface, customize reports, and share your work
  • Learn the fundamentals of data visualization, personal data accessibility, and open data API's
  • Harness the power of publicly accessible data services including Google’s recently released Data Set Search
  • Add banners, logos, custom graphics, and color palettes

Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizens Survival Guide is a must-have resource for anyone starting their data visualization journey, from individuals, consultants, and small business owners to large business and organization managers and leaders.

 

Introduction xv
Part I Data Studio Basics
1(98)
Chapter 1 Data Studio and the Data Citizen
3(12)
Data, Data Everywhere
4(3)
Accessibility of Data
4(1)
Deriving Value from Data
5(2)
The Role of Data Studio
7(5)
A Brief History of Data Studio
9(3)
Fundamentals First
12(1)
Where to Go for Help
12(1)
Time to Get Started!
13(2)
Chapter 2 Cooking with Google Data Studio
15(42)
Our First Example
15(40)
Step 1 Select a Dish to Prepare: Visualizing a Bank Account
16(3)
Before We Start: Things You'll Need
19(1)
Step 2 Let's Go Shopping! Getting the Data
19(2)
Step 3 Unpack the Groceries: Setting Up Google Drive
21(1)
Step 4 Preparing the Ingredients: Working with Google Sheets
22(3)
Step 5 Familiarizing Yourself with the Kitchen: Data Studio Home Screen and Starting a New Report
25(3)
Step 6 Assemble the Ingredients: Connecting the Data to the Report
28(7)
Step 7 Set the Table: Adding Your First Chart
35(5)
Step 8 Keep Score with Scorecards
40(5)
Step 9 It's About Time: Building the Time-Series Chart
45(5)
Step 10 Serving Suggestions: Finishing Touches and Sharing Your Report
50(5)
Summary
55(2)
Chapter 3 Enhancing Basic Graphs
57(16)
Static Report Design
57(2)
Before Getting Started: Things You'll Need
59(11)
Step 1 Copy the Report
60(1)
Step 2 Modify the Header and Set the Date Range
61(2)
Step 3 Modify Scorecards
63(2)
Step 4 Modify Time-Series Chart
65(1)
Step 5 Modify the Transactions Table
66(3)
Step 6 Save the Report as PDF for Sharing
69(1)
Summary
70(3)
Chapter 4 Data Exploration with Interactive Elements
73(26)
Building Our Workbench Example
73(9)
Step 1 Selecting a Dish to Prepare: Exploration Workbench for a Bank Account
74(3)
Step 2 Let's Go Shopping! Getting the Data Set
77(1)
Step 3 Assembling the Ingredients: Connecting Data to the Report
78(4)
Adding Chart Components and Graphic Elements
82(10)
Step 4 Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: Copying Elements from Other Reports
82(2)
Step 5 Easy as Pie! Adding a Pie Chart
84(1)
Step 6 Step Up to the Bar: Adding the Bar Chart
85(5)
Step 7 Lining Things Up: Adding the Line Chart
90(1)
Step 8 Tables, Again!? Setting Up the Table
91(1)
Adding and Configuring Filter Controls
92(2)
Step 9 Fun with Filters: Setting Up the Standard Filter Controls
92(2)
Tips for Using Interactive Filters
94(1)
Find the Answers: Filter Challenge
95(2)
Summary
97(2)
Part II Business and Marketing Applications
99(122)
Chapter 5 Web Data Visualization with Google Analytics
101(34)
Google Services for Websites and Business
102(2)
A Brief Primer for Google Analytics
104(8)
Using a Template to Create a New Report
106(4)
Building the Google Analytics Report
110(2)
Modifying the Charts
112(5)
Working with the New Report
117(9)
A Real-World Example: The Effects of a Beach Party in Spain on Web Traffic
117(7)
The Limits of Demographic Data from Google Analytics
124(2)
Now for a Side Dish: Adding a Page and Using Filters
126(6)
Summary
132(3)
Chapter 6 Using Google Search Console for Audience Insights
135(38)
Search Console and Search Results Pages
136(5)
Creating a Search Console Report with Data Studio
141(16)
Step 1 Selecting the Dish to Prepare
142(2)
Step 2 Let's Go Shopping!
144(3)
Step 3 Assemble the Ingredients
147(6)
Step 4 Setting the Table
153(4)
Bon Appetite! Using the Search Console Report
157(13)
An Example for Your Soul!
161(9)
Summary
170(3)
Chapter 7 Viewing Local Organization Data from Google My Business
173(48)
Google Search and the Local Organization
173(14)
GMB: The New Home Page in the Search Results
175(1)
What the User Sees in a GMB Listing
176(4)
What the Owner Sees in a GMB Listing
180(5)
Why Use Data Studio for GMB?
185(2)
Step 1 Selecting the Dish to Prepare
187(8)
The Actions Page
189(1)
The Reviews Page
190(2)
The Search Page
192(2)
Before You Begin: What You Need to Get Started
194(1)
Step 2 Let's Go Shopping and Assemble the Ingredients
195(7)
Step 3 Setting the Table
202(16)
Report, Page, and Header Setup
203(3)
Page Navigation Button Setup
206(3)
Building the Actions Page
209(4)
Building the Search Page
213(2)
Building the Reviews Page
215(3)
Summary
218(3)
Part III Beyond the Office
221(178)
Chapter 8 Getting Personal
223(68)
Creating Your Own Data
223(25)
Using Google Forms to Collect Your Own Data
225(23)
Curating Data from Other Sources
248(14)
Setting Up IFTTT to Capture Tweets
250(6)
Preparing the Google Sheet for Data Studio
256(1)
Create a Data Source for the Google Sheet
256(2)
Create the New Twitter Report
258(4)
Working with Data Generated for You
262(18)
Music Service Tracking Example
262(7)
Google Fit Community Connector Example
269(1)
Community Connector Setup for Google Fit
270(10)
Bringing It All Together
280(8)
Created Data
280(3)
Curated Data
283(1)
Generated Data
284(4)
Summary
288(3)
Chapter 9 Going Public
291(72)
Shared Data Sets
291(1)
Searching for Data Sets
292(2)
Getting Data from Kaggle
294(36)
Using a Kaggle Account
294(8)
Building the UFO Sightings Workbench
302(5)
Dealing with Performance Issues in Reports
307(1)
Using the Extract Data Connector to Speed Up Reports
307(7)
data.world and Makeover Monday
314(16)
Bringing It Home: Real Estate in Your Neighborhood
330(16)
Selecting the Dish to Prepare
331(1)
Going Shopping: Hunting for Housing Data
332(5)
Unpacking the Groceries: Moving the File to Google Drive
337(1)
Preparing the Ingredients: Fixing Data Formatting Issues
338(2)
Assembling the Ingredients: Connecting the Data to the Report
340(1)
Preparing the Meal: The Plan Meets Reality
340(6)
Sharing Your Dish: Embedding Reports
346(15)
Embedding a Report in a Google Site
351(2)
Embedding a Report in a Word Press Site
353(3)
Dealing with Pivoted Data
356(5)
Summary
361(2)
Chapter 10 Where Do You Go from Here?
363(36)
Helping Your Audience See the Light
363(20)
Annotation Ideas for Static Reports
364(3)
Annotation Ideas for Interactive Reports
367(4)
Providing Detailed Instructions for Users
371(4)
Community Visualizations
375(2)
Data Studio as an Application Development Platform
377(6)
Exotic Ingredients and Your Pantry
383(13)
Data Blending
383(5)
File Upload
388(2)
BigQuery for Big Data
390(5)
Community Connectors
395(1)
The Latest Dishes: New Developments and Releases
396(1)
Summary
396(3)
Index 399
LEE HURST began doing application development in 1995 as a consultant, later joining IBM where he worked as a web application developer. Since 2006 he has worked for EnPro Industries building custom eCommerce solutions and consulting for global web development, analytics solutions, and SEO. He assists small businesses and agencies through his Helpfullee website, and maintains the Google Data Studio Resource Finder, a free service he created in 2017.