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Published inOct 2022
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Sireesha Pulipati
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Sireesha Pulipati is an experienced data analytics and data management professional. She has spent the last decade building and managing data platforms and solutions, and is passionate about enabling users to leverage data to solve business problems. Sireesha holds a master's degree in Business Administration and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Her work history spans multiple industries – healthcare, media, travel & hospitality, high-tech, and more. She is currently at Google as an analytics lead, helping with analytics strategy to support Search Knowledge Graph. Outside of work, Sireesha enjoys hiking and reading books. She currently resides in the Bay Area.
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Leveraging calculated fields

Calculated fields are custom fields that you can add to data sources and charts. These fields are derived from existing fields in the data source, including other calculated fields. A calculated field can be either a dimension or a metric.

Looker Studio provides several functions grouped under six categories to help create useful calculated fields. These include the following:

  • Arithmetic
  • Conditional
  • Date
  • Geo
  • Text
  • Aggregation
  • Miscellaneous

Calculated fields serve many purposes. They enable you to implement business logic, create user-friendly representations of data, and create complex metrics beyond simple aggregations.

Arithmetic functions enable you to perform mathematical operations such as computing logarithms, exponentials, trigonometric values, or nearest integers on numeric data. You can also do simple math using regular operators for addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. With date functions...

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Sireesha Pulipati is an experienced data analytics and data management professional. She has spent the last decade building and managing data platforms and solutions, and is passionate about enabling users to leverage data to solve business problems. Sireesha holds a master's degree in Business Administration and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Her work history spans multiple industries – healthcare, media, travel & hospitality, high-tech, and more. She is currently at Google as an analytics lead, helping with analytics strategy to support Search Knowledge Graph. Outside of work, Sireesha enjoys hiking and reading books. She currently resides in the Bay Area.
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