Automate Looker Studio data contracts for humans and machines to read.

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Data Contracts
Data.Monks
A Data Dictionary for Data Visualisation

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Explain the need for data contracts
How are they useful end to end in
data?

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The rate of adoption and growth of
LookerStudio has been impressive
But
It can become a chaotic burden

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Has your Looker Studio footprint grown organically?

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Lots of data sources created by lots people in the org?

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Ownership
Auditability
Governance
Reliability
Consistency
Has your Looker Studio footprint grown organically? Then you need:

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Export Google Workspace Admin
data to BigQuery
Looker Studio Log Events!
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Now you have an automated
Looker Studio Library
Assets, actors, analytics.

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Looker Studio assets:
● Data Sources
● Blends
● Segments
● Filters
Resources
What’s in your reports?

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23 Google Connectors
719 Partner Connectors
● Analytics
● GMP
● SQL
● Cloud Storage
● Sheets
And growing!
Data sources
Data Sources

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● Record what data is used.
● What’s expected.
● Data types
● Naming conventions
● Notes, details, context
● Query details
Data sources
Dims, Mets, Segments, Filters

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What if…?

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Self documenting assets?

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Self documenting assets!
Human and machine readable.

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Self documenting assets!
Human and machine readable.
Automated data contracts for Looker dashboards

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Data Contract, human readable
summary template

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Data Contract, human readable
data source template

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Template for data source details

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Populate templates from sheets

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Data Contract, human readable deck

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Link to decks for all assets

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Visualisation library
Data dictionary
Strategic usage
Activated
Analytics
Demonstrate usage
Summary
Governance
Manage access
Auditable access
Maintained
Automated

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Applying structure, rigor, and governance to data visualisation
Wrap up

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Record
● Library
● Assets
● Bulk management
Applying structure, rigor, and governance to data visualisation
Wrap up

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Record
● Library
● Assets
● Bulk management
Applying structure, rigor, and governance to data visualisation
Wrap up
Audit
● Creation
● Ownership
● Access
● Governance

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Manage
● GA4 migration
● Access
● Maintenance
Record
● Library
● Assets
● Bulk management
Audit
● Creation
● Ownership
● Access
● Governance
Applying structure, rigor, and governance to data visualisation
Wrap up

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Any
Questions?

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Expect a blog
post on this
soon ;-)