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Published inMar 2022
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Adi Wijaya
Adi Wijaya
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Adi Wijaya

Adi Widjaja is a strategic cloud data engineer at Google. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Binus University and co-founded DataLabs in Indonesia. Currently, he dedicates himself to big data and analytics and has spent a good chunk of his career helping global companies in different industries.
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Unlocking the power of your data with Data Studio

Data Studio is a tool for you to visualize your data fully on the cloud. There are two main reasons why we need data visualization; the first is exploration and the second is reporting: 

  • Data visualization for exploration

As a data engineer, even though visualizing data is not your main responsibility, there are times when visualizing data may help in your job. For example, at times when you need to optimize your data pipeline, you may need to analyze a job's performance. Visualizing the job's data will help you get more information. If you have a data science background, you may be familiar with tools such as Jupyter Notebook. It is a fully fledged tool for data analytics, including visualization for exploration. But in our case, we may only need to quickly visualize a bar chart from a BigQuery table, for example. And in that case, Data Studio is the best option due to its simplicity and seamless connectivity...

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Data Engineering with Google Cloud Platform
Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800561328

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Adi Wijaya

Adi Widjaja is a strategic cloud data engineer at Google. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Binus University and co-founded DataLabs in Indonesia. Currently, he dedicates himself to big data and analytics and has spent a good chunk of his career helping global companies in different industries.
Read more about Adi Wijaya