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Build Insightful Dashboards with Google Data Studio (Udemy.com)

Create powerful data visualisations within minutes from google analytics and google sheets to speed up time to insight

Created by: Annabel Lyle

Last updated January 2019

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What you will learn

  • Connect to a range of Data Sources (Google Analytics, Google Sheets)
  • Get started with a FREE Data Studio Account
  • Create and customise a range of data visualisations (scorecards, time series charts, bar charts, area charts, tables)
  • Create re-usable report templates that follow best practice principles to share with collegues
  • Create advance visualisations (maps, scatter charts, bullet charts)
  • Add dynamic date and dimension filters to make dashboards interactive
  • Tell powerful stories from your data
  • Confidently create interactive analytical dashboards with your own Data
  • Complete a final assignment and receive feedback on your final dashboard

How it compares

Against the other 93 rated Udemy courses in Google Analytics on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.0 out of 5higher than 8% of them
  • Reviews928#17 of 94 by number of reviews
  • Length2.4 hoursshorter than 53% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2019earlier than 80% of them

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Overall Score : 80 / 100

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Course Description

NEW LECTURE! (November 2018)

Overview of The Explorer feature in Data Studio and how it can help you to reach insights faster!

This course also now supports Captions in English to help support your learning.

The Power of Data Studio

  • Intuitive Design - create dashboard designs that are more intuitive than dashboards in GA & Google Sheets

  • Scale your insights - build shareable dashboards saved in Google Drive

  • Speed up time to insight - build reports and visualisations to answer questions within minutes

  • User friendly Templates and Layouts - will make it easier for users to interpret the data.

Data Studio is a new Data Visualisation Tool created by Google. It is part of the Google Suite including Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides.

Data Studio is FREE and allows you to connect to a range of data sources.

It's an incredible tool to create powerful and interactive dashboards for you to explore your underlying data.

I look forward to showing you how powerful Data Studio is for speeding up time to insight.

Target Audience

This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to find meaning from their data and communicating insights through great dashboards.

Your role might fall into one of the following

  • Online Marketer

  • Product Analyst

  • Data Analyst

  • Product Owners/Manager

  • Small business Owner

Data Sources you may already use

  • Google Analytics,  Adwords or other Google Product

  • Google Sheets

  • Excel

Data Studio has 3 Key Pillars which are;

1. Connecting to many data sources

2. Visualising data through a range of customisable reports and widgets 

3. Sharing dashboards for collaboration and communicating insights.

NEW LECTURE (May 2018)

Asking the question is Data Studio the right tool for me? In this new lecture 'Why Data Studio?' I explore how you can evaluate how Data Studio fits within your existing toolset and how to evaluate Data Studio against other Business Intelligence Tools in the market.

NEW ASSIGNMENT! (April 2018)

To ensure you have even more hands-on experience there is now an Assignment at the end of the course for you to complete! You will create a dashboard from scratch and answer key questions about the data set to pass the assignment and receive feedback on your final Data Studio Report.


NEW LECTURES! (DEC 2017) 

  • Calculated Metrics - Simple Arithmetic -  Learn how to create new metrics from your existing data sets directly in Data Studio, to explore your data in new ways

NEW LECTURES! (NOV 2017) 

  • Handling Sampling of Google Analytics Data in Data Studio


NEW LECTURES (AUG 2017)

  • Prepare your data in Google Sheets for Data Studio

  • Connecting Google Sheets to Data Studio

  • Connect your own Google Analytics Data to Power your reports


NEW LECTURES (SEPT 2017) 

  • Tracking Usage of your Data Studio Reports


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Instructor Details

Annabel Lyle

My name is Annabel and I have over 5 years of experience as a Data Analyst within Marketing and Product Teams. I have also mentored and taught individuals  and teams how to get the most out of a range of data visualisation tools, to ensure they have the greatest impact. My expertise is in storytelling with data, data visualisation and data analysis. Key tools that I teach and work with include Data Studio, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and R Studio.

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Reviews

4.0

928 ratings on Udemy

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By Samuel Ng on 1/25/2021

The course is more like a introduction to Datastudio. Instructor showed how to use the charts but did not really explain how to use the charts to display data in a more intuitive manner for end users. Expected more on how to build insightful dashboard not how to use datastudio. Instead at the end of the course, was told to attend the advance course.

By Kevin Baum on 5/26/2020

I had spent 3 hours prior to this course messing around on GDS myself and I was struggling with a few things so I bought this course in order to get the skills. After my three hours by myself, I learned nothing new from this course unfortunately. I saw it listed as intermediate, but it felt pretty beginner to me. I'm willing to try the advanced course, but I would like a refund for this course.

By Emils Ozols on 5/3/2020

Introduced me to the tool very well, however, since 2 years have passed since this course was created, some things are slightly out of date (UI changes, data source differences, etc) which might be troublesome for complete newcomers

By Frank Groot Koerkamp on 1/4/2020

I wasn't really new to Data Studio but still I've learned a few new tricks. I'v you’re a beginner and want to learn Data Studio and want to experiment with it, then this course is for you. Annabel Lyle is a good tutor, she explains everything very good. You can follow her along and start building your own dashboards.

By Michael O'Shaughnessy on 11/18/2018

I was familiar with Data Studio but never really used it. I really had no idea where to start. This course gave me the knowledge and confidence to create my own Data Studio Report around parent communication! Great pace, perfect timing on the lectures and the activities were relevant.

By Jan Kleinsmit on 4/28/2018

I have been commissioned by a client to present their Google Analytics Data on a monthly basis. Up till a day ago I never knew Google Data Studio existed. What an incredible product from Google. Annabel presented the course in a concise and insightful manner. I will not be doing her final project but rather dive straight into the client's presentation. Hopefully Annabel will be able to comment on that. Thank you Annabel for an excellent course - it was worth every cent.

By Adam Casey on 1/15/2018

Good overview of how the main tools works as well as practical examples of how they should be used from an ecommerce reporting standpoint (Using Google's ecommerce sample data) Hoping that the course is updated with more realworld examples of useful reports and visualisations to setup that ensure the viewers are able to gain valuable insights from their data.

By Josh on 12/21/2017

Seriously great course. Perfect start for any rookies starting out in Data Studio. The instructor was obviously very experienced in Data Studio, Google Analytics and overall data visualization. Would take another course of hers if she decides to offer another.

By Gavin Vaz on 11/5/2017

Readymade training which is available on youtube as well. I was looking for a course which would help me work with google sheets and datastudio which was scantily covered and I see a lot seemed to have been missed out. example how I can add additional data sources to my existing report. The trainer has not shown how multiple pages in a report can be navigated within the report etc. I am happy with the way it was all presented but I am did not get what I wanted. Not everyone would want to visualize data from google analytics. Very strange that the trainer did not focus much on google sheets.I felt this is just an intro to a subject. I could say the whole course is actually just covering the ABC or is 3 lectures which are spread across and made into a course. this is incomplete and is not value for money.

By Charlie Sandner on 9/15/2017

This course taught me so much about Data Studio in such a short time. I have an advanced Analytics Certification, an Adwords Certification, I am well versed in Tag Manager--and use the all in real life. To boot, I'm just the Web Developer, and I'm not supposed to know this stuff. Thank you so much! Also, we use Google Sheets. That was a section that will help me turn reports into something readable.

By Rafał Mańka

Exactly what I was expecting it to be. I'm learning very valuable stuff in perfect pace.

By Nick Pape

2 hours of focused attention and you'll be a Data Studio master! Great course if you are starting a new job and need to get up to speed on the company trends. This would typically take forever in the GA platform!

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