Google Data Studio A-Z: Looker Studio for Data Visualization (Udemy.com)
Use Google Data Studio (now Looker Studio) to create reports & visualizations from Google Sheets| Google Analytics
Created by: Start-Tech Academy
Last updated May 2026
What you will learn
- How to use Google Data Studio to turns your data into fully customizable informative reports and dashboards that are easy to read and share
- All chart types that one can draw in Google Data Studio
- Sharing and collaborating on Data studio reports
- Branding a report - Adding Logo and setting theme
- Embedding external content into the report
- Embedding your Google Datastudio report on your website
- Adding date range and filter controls to your dashboard
Course Description
[September 2024 update]
Updated definition of Dimensions and measures as per recent changes
Updated data blending - added different types of joins now supported by Looker Studio
Rectified time series data to accommodate how data studio handles date time related data
6 Reasons why you should choose this Google Data Studio course
Carefully designed course, teaching you not only how to draw all types of charts in Google Data Studio, but also advanced Data studio specific features
Concise - you can complete this Google Data Studio course within one weekend
Business-related examples and case studies
Ample practice exercises because Data Visualization and Google Data Studio require practice
Downloadable resources for learning Google Data Studio and Data Visualization
Your queries will be responded by the Instructor himself
Start using Google Data Studio to its full potential to become proficient at Google Data Studio and Data Visualization and reporting tasks today!
Either you're new to Data Visualization or Google Data Studio, or you've made some charts and graphs using some data visualization software such as MS Excel or Tableau. Either way, this course will be great for you.
A Verifiable Certificate of Completion is presented to all students who undertake this Google Data Studio course.
Why should you choose this course?
This is a complete and concise tutorial on Google Data Studio which can be completed within 6 hours. We know that your time is important and hence we have created this fast paced course without wasting time on irrelevant operations.
What makes us qualified to teach you?
The course is taught by Abhishek and Pukhraj. Instructors of the course have been teaching Data Science and Machine Learning for over a decade. We have in-depth understanding on and practical exposure to Google Data Studio and Data Visualization.
We are also the creators of some of the most popular online courses - with over 600,000 enrollments and thousands of 5-star reviews like these ones:
I had an awesome moment taking this course. It broaden my knowledge more on the power use of Excel as an analytical tools. Kudos to the instructor! - Sikiru
Very insightful, learning very nifty tricks and enough detail to make it stick in your mind. - Armand
Our Promise
Teaching our students is our job and we are committed to it. If you have any questions about the course content, Google Data Studio, Data Visualization, practice sheet or anything related to any topic, you can always post a question in the course or send us a direct message.
What is covered in this course?
This course covers everything you need to create insightful and dynamic reports using Google Data Studio in the professional work place.
Below are the course contents of this complete and concise course on Google Data studio:
Introduction - In this section, the structure and the contents of the course are discussed. We also discuss the reason to why should we learn Google Data Studio.
Theoretical concepts - This lecture covers the prerequisite understanding of key terminologies and concepts before we start to work on Google Data Studio.
All charts and tables in Data Studio - We cover all the available chart types one-by-one. It includes Data tables, scorecards, bar charts, time series, pie charts, GeoMaps, pivot tables and many more.
Data filter controls - This lecture covers the filtering options that can be given to the report viewers so that each viewer can filter the data and see only what s/he wants to see.
Branding the report - Branding a report is a very popular business practice and we will see how we can do it using brand logo and brand colors
Embedding external content - We can add videos, quizzes, feedback forms, company websites to our report. Yes! It is possible. We will see how in this section.
Blending multiple data sets - Real life data is in multiple tables. To plot a graph using data from multiple tables requires data blending. Very Important Section.
Report Sharing and Collaborating - This section covers ways in which you can give viewing or editing rights to others. You can also schedule regular reports to the management using Google Data Studio. Report sharing is something where no other Data Visualization tool can beat Google Data Studio.
And so much more!
By the end of this course, your confidence in using Google data studio for data visualisation will soar. You'll have a thorough understanding of how to use Google Data Studio for creating insightful dashboards and beautiful reports.
Go ahead and click the enroll button, and I'll see you in lesson 1 of this Google Data Studio course!
Cheers
Start-Tech Academy
FAQ's
What you can do with Data Studio?
Visualize your data through highly configurable charts and tables.
Easily connect to a variety of data sources.
Share your insights with your team or with the world.
Collaborate on reports with your team.
Speed up your report creation process with built-in sample reports.
Is Google Data Studio free to use?
Google Data Studio is offered completely free by Google.
What is the use of Google Data Studio?
Google Data Studio gives you everything you need to turn your client's analytics data into informational, easy-to-understand reports through data visualization. The reports are easy to read, easy to share and even customizable to each of your clients
The Authors of this course have several years of corporate experience and hence have curated the course material keeping in mind the requirement of Google Data Studio and Data visualization techniques in today's corporate world.
Instructor Details
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3,221 Reviews
Start-Tech Academy
Start-Tech Academy is a technology-based Analytics Education Company and aims at Bringing Together the analytics companies and interested Learners.
Our top quality training content along with internships and project opportunities helps students in launching their Analytics journey.
Founded by Abhishek Bansal and Pukhraj Parikh.
Working as a Project manager in an Analytics consulting firm, Pukhraj has multiple years of experience working on analytics tools and software. He is competent in MS office suites, Cloud computing, SQL, Tableau, SAS, Google analytics and Python.
Abhishek worked as an Acquisition Process owner in a leading telecom company before moving on to learning and teaching technologies like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
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Reviews
By Anonymized User on 11/13/2025
order of courses can be modified like the data for area chart is given post the lecture. Kindly give that prior to lecture so people won't waste time to figure why the chart s not working for them. Embed report can be elaborated. Overall, good and easy learning for a BI guy.
By Vipin Rawat on 12/27/2023
I really enjoyed the Google Data Studio A-Z: Looker Studio for Data Visualization course. It provided a comprehensive and concise overview of the platform, teaching me not only the basics of creating charts and dashboards, but also some advanced features and techniques. While the course covered the core functionalities of Data Studio effectively, it would be even better if it could be updated to include some of the newest features, such as: Gauge Charts Waterfall Charts To complement the course learning, I would also recommend providing links to resources where learners can practice and experiment with Data Studio on their own.
By Anonymized User on 5/21/2023
Great instructor! The lessons were chopped into bite size thus making it easy to absorb and remember. The Instructor was able to cover all there is to learn to be able to use the dashboard, especially, the use blend data, dimensions, metric,etc.
By Anonymized User on 4/18/2023
General, it's a good course. There are some lectures missing data so I can not practice it. Moreover, in the future, I would also want to learn more about how to connect Big Query and use SQL to build Data Studio. I'm looking forward to if you guys will plan to have that course.
By Arad Hanover on 3/11/2023
The course content is interesting, and very relevant. I felt that the focus of the course is on creating the tables and graphs and less on the theoretical information behind each graph. Suitable for those with basic knowledge of statistics
By Andreas Wieser on 5/8/2022
Thanks for your course, it was very good! :) What was good: - I was a beginner for Google Data Studio, but knows usage of Tableau, Excel & SQL, so the videos explain every single part of chart building in a great detail. - Explanation commentary in the videos was very well prepared, precise and easy to understand. Spoken English with accent was okay and subtitles were to 90% correct for English. What could be handled better: - The course says that you will need nearly 6 hours for completing the 4 hours of course videos. I guess you will need more time. Maybe 8 till 12 hours to fully understand and rebuild all the steps, which was totally fine for me. - Be aware: You will have troubles during some videos with csv data from the course which include human readable dates like "Mar 2019" and not machine readable dates like "2019-03-01". - If you have a number format in your country which differs from US number format, so "3,1415" instead of "3.1415" then you have to edit the csv files from the course before you can import them into Google Data Studio. - Import external tables from parsed html ALWAYS with additional U.S.A. "language parameter" at the end during this course, so use IMPORTHTML(..., "en_US"). That will convert the imported data correct into non-US number formats, for example for European users.
By Andi Syahril Syarifuddin on 9/24/2021
Excellent Course and learn so many things about google data studio as well as solved some problem about data studio. Just need to update and direct show how to make dynamic chart clearly. Thanks to the Instructors and udemy for this helpful course
By Divya Dias on 7/14/2021
Good insights for a beginner with no prior knowledge of data studio. I am able to build basic reports and get started. I would have liked the tutor to touch upon how data from other databases (beyond Bigdata) can be brought into datastudio (specifically the MySQL and PostgreSQL) since these are common databases.
By Masoud Boroumandi on 4/9/2021
Guys your are great! The course material and design was awesome. The speed of speech was optimum. The initial explanation about how to work with the course (speed, FAQ, etc..) was really helpful and, significantly attractive was the stimuli and motivation hint in the beginning when you said you are in the top 20 percent. Well done guys! Much appreciated.
By Clara Perez on 6/6/2020
Amazing course! Very precise, simple and informative. Even without previous knowledge on BI tools, this is very helpful. And for those with more experience, you can easily scan through the content faster and still learn specific Google Data Studio functionalities.
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