And at the end of which you have to still hope that the data is still relevant, given its redundancy due to lack of real time data capturing and analysis.
Other than being redundant and inefficient at the same time, what makes this kind of reporting not preferable in modern times is the fact that you don't get to decide directly, and intuitively, the key factors upon which reporting should be done.
Filled with dull, inactive, and complex tables, bar, pie, area, and scatter plot charts, such reports barely present you with insights if you are not 'that' good with numbers and stats.
And that's the problem that this modern BI (business intelligence) tool, Google Data Studio (internal link), has chosen to address and solve. By delivering the power of data collection, transformation, and analysis directly in your hands, Data Studio helps your business, or department, in making decisions backed by accurate data, rather than the insights analyzed and delivered by a third party .
Google Data Studio is cloud-based, free, data visualization and reporting tool that turns your data into informative, easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable dashboards and reports. And all of this can be done simply by its intuitive and user-friendly drag-and-drop features.
Well known and recognized data bases, such as BigQuery, DoubleClick, CSVs, Adobe Analytics, Amazon, etc.
Other being reliable and a well known name, a quality that is much needed when it comes to operating and sharing your data, Google Data studio has features that not only make it user to use, but a darling among marketers and data analyst. To let you have some of it too, here are the top 5 features that will make you a Data Studio fan too.
Data Studio provides dozens of mathematical, string, date, and other functions to transform your data into more useful values. You can choose to either use these functions separately or combine them with other functions and operators to create sophisticated calculated fields.
With Data studio you can easily add shapes, images, and text to your reports and dashboards to make them easier to read and highlight important aspects of the data.
With Data Studio you never feel the need to ask for help from some 'far-sitting' tech guy, as there are dozens of things that you can do with Data Studio with writing a single line of code. And that's just one, out of many benefits, that this tool offers. So here are the top 3 reasons that why you should start using Data Studio if data visualization is on your mind nowadays.
You can invite your friends or peers to work with you on reports and visualizations. You can see edits as they happen and have all changes automatically saved.
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