Reader small image

You're reading from  Data Engineering with Google Cloud Platform - Second Edition

Product typeBook
Published inApr 2024
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781835080115
Edition2nd Edition
Right arrow
Author (1)
Adi Wijaya
Adi Wijaya
author image
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

Right arrow

Unlocking the power of your data with Looker Studio

Looker 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, while the second is reporting:

  • AqaaAAQ

    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 query 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. In that case, Looker Studio is the best option due to its simplicity and seamless connectivity to BigQuery.

  • Data...
lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Data Engineering with Google Cloud Platform - Second Edition
Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835080115

Author (1)

author image
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