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Visualizing and styling data in tables

Visualizing and styling data in tables - Google Data Studio Tutorial

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Visualizing and styling data in tables

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- [Instructor] Dashboarding uses data visualization instead of only spreadsheets, like CSV files or Excel. But tabular data is still incredibly important, and can be customized for a blend of visual analysis. When there are so many tools and options under charts, it can be tempting to keep tables to a minimum and force variety for design's sake. If you find that a lot of your data does fit tables well, it's better to have more and enhance the charts, rather than try to make the data communicate through another type of visualization that might not work as well for communication. To add my first table, I'll go to the chart dropdown, and choose the very first icon under table. After I place it, I also want to change the data source so that paid media information from Google Ads can be within this dashboard. To change the data source, we can go to the data panel and exit out of the Google Merch Store web analytics data. Now, I'll…

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