1 day course
Supporting material
Classroom, Virtual, Private
Whether you’re currently using Google Analytics as your dashboard solution, or perhaps you’ve not yet got experience building dashboards but you realise that your organisation needs one, we’ve got you covered.
Looker Studio is Google’s dashboarding / reporting tool that allows you to visualise data from most Google products (and from other tools through using Google Sheets) in an appealing, user-friendly way.
This one-day course is led by our experienced analytics practitioners, who will share with you tips and tricks from their experience working on agency client accounts. From both a technical and a strategic point of view, we’ll help you understand how your organisation can get the most out of this free product and tell a story using data.
We’ll make use of a demo Google Analytics account for the practical elements and demonstrations in this course; you’ll be granted access to this on the day.
Our Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio) course is available at our training centre in The Shard, London or via virtual classroom. We also offer private training at a location of your choice across the UK, globally or online.
Course overview
Who should attend:
If you’re curious as to how your organisation can get the most out of this free product, and want to gain experience in building dashboards, this course is the ideal first step.
What you'll learn:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Use Google Analytics and other data sources together to create a dashboard
- Understand the end-to-end dashboard planning process, including KPI setting and wireframing
- Create your own dashboard using Looker Studio’s functionality
- Design clear and concise yet visually appealing dashboards in accordance with best practices and making use of key design principles
Course agenda
- Introduction to data visualisation
- Defining dimensions and metrics
- Overview of data sources
- Dashboard building process and measurement planning
- Introduction to data sources
- Native and partner connectors
- Hands-on exercise: connecting to a data source
- Data source field manipulation and aggregation
- Dashboarding interface overview
- Hands-on exercise: creating visualisations
- Introduction to dashboard design principles
- Filters, tabs and data storytelling
- Building a dashboard narrative
- Overview of advanced Data Studio features
- Calculated metrics and dimensions
- Pivot tables and community visualisations
- Adding multiple data sources
- Hands-on exercise: advanced features