With Looker Studio - Newsletter #9
Hello,
Here comes the 9th issue of With Looker Studio Newsletter and my aim is to send it every month.
For now, I'm happy to share with you some news and contents:
My latest blog post about the preview release of Excel connector!
3 freshly updated blog posts, available in English, but also in French. 3 posts that became classic solutions
The latest important releases of Looker Studio
A teaser about a new project I'm working on right now and I wish to release before the end of the year
Mehdi
The Looker Studio native connector for Excel is available in preview
The native Looker Studio connector for Excel is now available in preview for all and I wrote last July about my first tests in this article.
3 freshly updated classic blog posts
Let's go back to basics with these 3 tutorials I've just refreshed.
Few years ago, I wrote them after the amazing release of the "parameter" feature.
It was a way to demonstrate how we can improve the reader experience of our Looker Studio interactive reports.
How to add a dimension selector to control dynamically which data is displayed in your charts
How to create a metric selector to choose which measure is displayed
How to configure a time granularity slider & control the date dimension of your time series charts
I'm trying to keep them up-to-date and as clear as possible after all the features released these last years.
Cerise sur le gâteau : These articles are now all available in French 🇫🇷 through the side bar of the English version.
Looker Studio new features
These 2 last months, Looker Studio team has released the following features:
Conditional formatting for collapsed pivot tables
Partner Connectors, including the official connector of Piwik PRO
The Gemini AI formula assistant to help to create calculated fields (only for Looker Studio Pro users)
The automatic generation of Google Slides, powered also bo Gemini AI for insights and annotations (only for Looker Studio Pro users)
A new project is coming
Let's finish with a small teaser :)
I'm thinking about this project for a while and it is probably the best moment to launch it regarding what is happening in the digital and data industry. In addition, my recent discussions with friends, peers, and partners reassured me in the idea of doing it, but of course, only in my way.
Each main side project around Looker Studio is a different opportunity for sharing, discovering new playgrounds, exploring other skills, something different comparing to what I usually do as a digital analyst.
The blog helps me to progress for knowledge transfer, English copywriting, website management. For the Chrome extension, it is funny to consider myself as a tiny product owner making decisions of UX/UI, the dev side is also enlightening.
And now, this upcoming 3rd brick will be also different for me. This time, it is more about playing with marketing, creating a new positioning in a landscape I know a little bit. Keep sharing & helping of course.
And what if I also do for this new side project what I usually do for my clients? If you are a digital analytics consultant or a digital marketer, I'm sure you already asked yourself this question.
Stay tuned for the launching.
Voilà, c'est tout pour le moment.
Mehdi Oudjida
Independent Consultant in Digital Analytics
& Looker Studio Expert