Visualizing BigQuery Data with Google Data Studio

*** NOTE: The lesson has been deprecated and was replaced by: https://cloudacademy.com/course/visualizing-bigquery-data-with-looker-studio-4971/ ***

Google Data Studio is a web-based application for creating reports and dashboards. It’s an easy-to-use tool for displaying your data visually. It was designed to help Google Analytics users create custom reports, but it can now read data from many sources, including BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage.

In this course, you will learn how to connect a Data Studio report to a BigQuery dataset, visualize it with charts and graphs, and share it with your co-workers to make data-driven decisions.

Learning Objectives

• Create a report in Data Studio
• Connect a Data Studio report to a BigQuery dataset
• Share a Data Studio report with appropriate levels of access

Intended Audience

• Data professionals, especially those who work with big data
• People studying for the Google Professional Data Engineer exam

Prerequisites

• “Introduction to Google BigQuery” course or experience with BigQuery
• A Google Cloud Platform account (sign up for a free trial at https://cloud.google.com/free if you don’t have an account)