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This is almost my favorite tool, barring a couple problems. Its very easy to use, and makes very readable, pretty reports/dashboards. Sharing via a URL is nice,
by soared 10y ago
This is almost my favorite tool, barring a couple problems. Its very easy to use, and makes very readable, pretty reports/dashboards. Sharing via a URL is nice, but I really like just exporting as a PDF and emailing them. Here is an example report that took <10 minutes to make [1]. The big problems though:
1. Beta version. You can't use this in production, send reports to clients, etc. when this tool is in beta. A client gets this report and expects all future reports to be this pretty, but Google might just kill it off or it could break.
2. Limited to 5 reports. The majority of agencies/brands can't afford the $100k+ a year for premium G suite. 5 reports per account kind of sucks, and I've had to use old google accounts to get past that limit.
3. Design. Most people simple aren't good at design, so you need a designer to create a good number of templates. Users cannot stray away from templates unless they know what they are doing. While its easy to use, its easy to make things look bad too.
4. You can pull from a Google Sheets, but updating that sheets doesn't play nicely with data studio.
Side ux notes.. changing pages resets the date range which is annoying. Choosing custom colors for some charts doesn't always work.
[1] http://i.imgur.com/1SCUNu1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1SCUNu1.jpg
- JungleGymSam 10y agoHave you seen Power BI?
- bduerst 10y agoRe: #2, I don't think Data Studio is a part of GSuite, or at least it doesn't appear to be.
- dudus 10y agoIt isn't. It's part of the Analytics 360 Suite. Other products in the suite being: Google Analytics, Google Optimize, Google Surveys, Audience Center, Google Attribution and Google Tag Manager. It's a very similar set of products to the Adobe Marketing Cloud.
- rffn 10y agoHow does updating sheets used as data source not play nicely with dat studio? I would expect the report to update when the sheet changes, at least when the report is reloaded. Is this what is happening?
- dudus 10y agoRight now, because of caching the update can take up to 12h. But you can manually update the data source to bring the latests data from the spreadsheet.
- rffn 10y agoThanks for the heads-up. That would indeed cause an interesting confusion if not known to the users. We could probably live with it for some use cases, a more direct update would be better though.
- z3t4 10y agoWith web tech you can make interactive graphics and animations, sure you can hover over a diagram and see the numbers, but they are only scratching the surface of what is possible.
- ablation 10y agoJust curious, how did you grab that "Dark Social" traffic from GA? A custom/advanced segment?
- butler14 10y agoI've already sold this to two clients. Can't see it going anywhere. But I've been wrong before...