the three primary tasks you need to create beautiful reports that tell

stories with your data:

Connecting to your data

Visualizing that data to gain insights

And sharing reports and collaborating on them with your colleagues and customers

You can follow along as we go through this video by signing in Data Studio now

Here's the Data Studio homepage

let's take a quick tour.

on the left you'll find the reports tool and the

data sources tool. Reports let you create beautiful and interactive data

visualizations. Data sources are reusable components that connect a report to your

underlying data such as Google sheets AdWords Google Analytics and more

Data Studio comes with a number of sample reports and data sources to help

get you started and show you what's possible to do with the product so be

sure to check those out. When you're viewing the list of reports or data

sources use the context menu to share rename or remove the selected object

Finally up in the right corner you've got controls that let you search for a

report or datasource, sort the list using different options, and provide feedback

to Google. Lets view the welcome report. This multi page report is

actually a tutorial on Data Studio so it's a good place to start when you're

ready to explore the product on your own. Clicking the logo in the top left corner

returns you to the home page

Ok now that you know your way around it's time to create your first report.

To do that make sure you're in the reports tool, then open the Report Editor. This is where

you build all of your reports. The first step to creating a new report is to

connect to your data

You do that by adding a data source to the report. Use the data source picker to

select an existing data source or you can create a brand new one by clicking

CREATE NEW DATA SOURCE. Let's use the sample Google Analytics data source that

comes with the product. Right now we've only got a couple of data sources so

it's easy to find

Later on if you have a lot of data sources you can you search to find a

specific one quickly

Adding a data source to a report requires you to grant permissions to do so

Once you've added the data source you can start visualizing your data

Let's change the orientation to landscape and for our first

visualization we'll add a time-series chart to this report

Use the time series tool then draw a box on the canvas where you want the chart

to appear. Data Studio automatically selects the time dimension and the metric

to use in this chart. You can change the date options and add style or color

using the Properties panel for the selected object. Congratulations! You've

created your first Data Studio visualization! It's just as easy to add

other components. Let's add a metric scorecard. Scorecards show a single

aggregated value for the field you select. We'll use the dimension picker to

change this one to show the Users metric

Date range controls let report viewers customize the time frame of a report

Let's add one. Finally let's put a top banner and a title on the report. We'll use

the rectangle tool for the banner and the text tool for the title. Data Studio

gives you a rich selection of style options to make your reports attractive,

compelling, and on brand for your business

The arrange menu lets you align components, group them and control how

they overlap

To view this report as other people will see it,

click the Edit toggle. This simple report may not be much to look at

yet but it is live data. You can interact with it by mousing over the data points

and you can also change the date range and update the data. There's a lot more

you can do with Data Studio so if you wanted to turn it into a work of data

visualization art you'd just use the Edit toggle again and add more visualisations,

data filters, additional pages, and more. For now though let's say you're ready to

move to the third step in telling your data story by sharing this report with

your co-worker. Sharing is easy! Type your colleagues email address in the People

field. You can also share Data studio report with a Google Group

When you share a report with other people you have two options: letting them view the

report or edit the report. To enable your co-worker to collaborate on the report

select Can Edit. In a moment your co-worker will get an email inviting

them to edit your report. When they access the report you'll see their

Google profile image appear in the toolbar. Now you can both edit the report

together in real time. How much more awesome will your reports be when you work on

them together as a team?! To learn more about Data Studio and see our other

video tutorials, visit the Help Center