This document discusses Looker Studio, a data visualization tool. It recommends Looker Studio for beginners because it is cloud-based, requires no installation, allows login with Gmail, and has a free tier and helpful community. The document provides an example of building a visualization using sample book data from a Google Sheet. It demonstrates some basic visualization features in Looker Studio and encourages the reader to try creating their own visualization with sample data from their work or personal finances.

1. Looker Studio
Pyari Kumaran for WTM Kozhikode
29th April, 2023

2. Why this topic?
● Mathematics - We use in our daily lives
● Data Skills - Good to have skill
○ Professionally
○ And sometimes personally too

3. Data visualisation skills - Who might benefit with this?
● Whichever profession you are in
● Health services - remember covid19india.org?
● Schools - Which subjects are the students generally doing weak?
● Recruitments - How many candidates accepted offers, but didn’t join a firm?
● IT infrastructure - How many laptops are more than 3 years old?
● Banker - What percentage of NPAs did we reach out to this month/quarter?

4. A picture is worth a 1000 words

5. Some popular Data Visualisation Tools in the market
● Tableau
● Power BI
● Looker Studio (Previously Data Studio)

6. Why Recommending Looker Studio for newbies?
● Cloud based - No installation
● Good place to start with small data which is saved in google drive
● Login with your gmail
● It’s free
● Good & friendly community (like any other product or tech from Google)

7. Building a visualisation - for a small data set
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11kStaWZ24G7ahZ9rsZ7Q2EAuzHwly8UaWil
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8. Points to Remember
● Structured Data

9. Let us frame some questions!
● How many books are there in the collection?
● Can we find out the name of some of the top authors in the collection?
● What are the original languages these books are written in?
● What is the price range of the books?
● When where these books procured?
● Given a time period, can I find the details of the books procured?

10. Some basic features in Looker Studio - Get started with them
● Score cards
● Pie charts
● Bar chart
● Slider
● Date Picker
● Drop Down

11. There is more to Looker Studio
● Access Rights - Share like google drive
● Edit mode and a view mode
● Multiple pages
● Filters
● Many more chart types and controls
● Blend data from multiple sources
● Connectors to connect to other sources - we just used spreadsheet here

12. Demo

13. Demo

14. My (private) LookerStudio playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQTizSjUx0tXV7eyjmQZOG9KlyhQORnSh

15. Before we close..
● Make a small data & bring up a visualisation today with looker studio
● Ideas
○ Frequently asked questions at work
○ personal finances, structure it and see where you are spending more?

16. Thank you
● Farish
● Jinu Rajendran
● Poornima & Arun - GDG
● Usha Rengaraju - My mentor during WDA
● Hailey Desai - WDA
● Abirami Sukumaran, Google - Speaker at WDA
● Dr. RPR Nair
● Dhanush Gopinath (Co-founder & CTO, Geektrust) - for the list of books

17. Thank you
● GDG Kozhikode community is a blessing. Hold on to them!
● Let us connect - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pyari-kumaran/