Hey guys, this is Ahmad from Measureschool. And today we're going to take a look at three
recent Google Data Studio updates that are gonna save you a ton of time. Let's go ahead
and get started.
So I'm gonna start with this week's Data Studio Update which is the ability to create charts
by dragging fields and dropping them directly onto the canvas. And then I'm going to share
two more time saving features. One from last week's update, and one from a few weeks ago.
So let me start with a blank report and connect it to our usual demo accounts. So as I said,
this week's feature is the ability to drag and drop fields directly onto the canvas to
create charts. Okay, so for example, if I drag a metric directly into the canvas over
here, it will create a scorecard. If I drag a date and time field, it should create an
Time Series charts. Or if I drag a geographic field like country, it will create a map,
it actually creates a Google Map. Okay, if you drag and drop any other dimension, it
will create a table. That's it. We can also drag more fields directly onto an existing
shot. So if I want to see pageviews on this table, I can just drag and drop it, or I can
also add it to the time series like this. That's it quick and easy.
Now let's take a look at number two. And that's the option to extract a custom reporting from
an image. So before we either had to select from this list of predefined themes, for example,
change the theme to a dark theme or we had to head over to the section to manually customize
different aspects of the same like fonts, borders, sizes and colors. But now with the
entire reduction of this extract seen from image feature, we can simply upload an image
or copy and paste this URL and Data Studio will analyze the colors in the image and will
extract the most prominent colors to create a custom themes for us automatically. Let's
give it a try, I'm going to click extracting from image. And I have two options either
upload an image from the computer, or copy and paste the URL. Let's try copy and pasting
the URL. I've already found this nice banana image on unsplash which I'm going to grab
the URL of, copy image address, back to Data Studio and paste the URL. I'm going to click
Upload. What happens now is that Data Studio tries to extract the main colors of the image
and it will create three themes for us to choose from, usually two light and ones are
colors. But sometimes it has three identical options. The trick is to use an image with
few prominent contrasting colors. Let's select this one and click Apply. Interesting, isn't
it, we just created the custom reports in less than a minute. We can also click customize
to adjust the same even further. Okay, moving on to the third and final time saving update
for today, which is Google Analytics integration. Let's go to Google Analytics interface. From
now on, we can create custom Data Studio dashboards directly from within the Google Analytics
interface. To do that, we simply need to go to the customization section. And then at
the top, we can click on any of these to create a custom Data Studio dashboard. Audiences
acquisition and behavior.
Okay, so this is the audience overview report. This is the acquisition overview report. And
finally, the behaviors overview. To use any of these reports, you just need to click on
Edit and share to open the report in your Google Data Studio account. So you will be
the owner of the report. And from that point forward, you can either share it with your
clients or use it as a baseline and customize it even further. So that's it for today. That's
it guys. Thank you very much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you're new
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And if you'd like to learn more about Data Studio, I have several more tutorials that
you can look up and watch. My name is Ahmad. See you in the next video.