Take your time to digest it, as it is constantly evolving and being improved.

A fair warning: there is a lot of documentation about Google Data Studio, the connector library, and a set of developer resources. To date, it is still a completely freeservice that Google makes available to anyone with a Google account. At the Google Cloud Next 2018 conference, there were some really cool demos of Google Data Studio and Google’s multi-terabyte BigQuery database. To be sure, Google Data Studio launched as beta in 2016, and it was released to the public in fall of 2018. There are several good short videos for Google Data Studio, but this longer walk-through with screenshots is really great if you want to have a deeper understanding of the product. Your web browser is all you need to view and edit a report, without the need to install complicated and expensive desktop software.

Google Data Studio allows you to connect, visualize and share powerful reports and dashboards to anyone with a network connection. NewPath Consulting is adopting Google Data Studio as a custom reporting solution for Wild Apricot and related analytics systems like Google Analytics.