Comments on: 22 Tips to Get Up-to-Speed with Google Data Studio

By: Paul Koks

Paul Koks — Wed, 06 May 2020 09:16:02 +0000

In reply to Pieter.

Hi Pieter,

Currently, I don’t have templates that I can share directly.

Thanks,
Paul

By: Pieter

Pieter — Sun, 03 May 2020 17:58:01 +0000

Hi Paul,
Nice blog! I was wondering if you can share an example of on of your ds templates?

By: Paul Koks

Paul Koks — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:13:17 +0000

In reply to John LaPerch.

Hi John,

I haven’t tried this, but I think you can. You might need to query the data in an external spreadsheet first (e.g. via Google Sheets and Supermetrics) and connect it to GDS after if it doesn’t work properly on default.

Best.
Paul

By: John LaPerch

John LaPerch — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:57:40 +0000

Any way to create a table where you have a page level date selector and where the comparisons are apples to apples?
For example, have a table showing GA revenue where if you chose June 2019 the compare date would be June 2018?
In the table set up, seems that you can only have one specific compare parameter. So while you can change the date and June 2019 numbers would come up. The compare stays at whatever level you set. So If you set compare to Previous Year..you get a comparison where You get June 2019 rev and all of 2018 revenue instead

By: Paul Koks

Paul Koks — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 07:28:49 +0000

In reply to Rahul Yadav. Thanks and great to hear that!

By: Rahul Yadav

Rahul Yadav — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 05:11:35 +0000

GDS is a fantastic tool. Just had a go on it and for sure this will save me some precious time trying to create custom reports from all Google assets.

By: Paul Koks

Paul Koks — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:41:58 +0000

In reply to James. Hi James, I believe it requires BQ.

By: James

James — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 23:29:24 +0000

Hi,

Great article! Do you know, other than via BQ, can you connect Firebase?

By: Paul Koks

Paul Koks — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:39:03 +0000

In reply to Lilian.

Hi Lilian,
I haven’t seen that before on my data sets. Does it show “auto” or something else? Could you create a customised/calculated metric in Google Sheets and from GDS link to that metric instead? That should always work.

By: Lilian

Lilian — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:20:31 +0000

Hi,
I was trying to build a report on Data Studio and the source is from Google Sheet. Everything works fine except when I created a new field with a customised formula, when trying to use this field in the report under “Metrics”, it always accompanied with the preset aggregates. How can I make the customised field to get the result of the formula set?