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Google Data Studio Part 2

I have been working with Google Data Studio for some of my visualisations. Now I say only some because I still have the issue with not being able to get it to connect to PostgreSQL and the Snowflake connector is a paid product. To address this I am looking at other products and am hopeful about Retool but will see what functionality is left once the free trail runs out. I am hoping that I am only using the free stuff. 

Building my dashboard in Google Data studio has been pretty easy, there are some things I don't like or can't work out how to do but I am more of a technical data person than a visualisation person, at least for the last 5-6 years that has been the case. 

Honestly the best thing to do it stick a data source in Google Data Studio and have a play. You basically pick a theme and drag and drop your dimensions and measures in and watch it build the graphs on the fly. Below are some graphics of the meu options, inserting a graph and manipulating it. 




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