2.1. Overview of Chart Types in Looker Studio

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Welcome to Looker Studio Essentials Course!

Today, we dive into the second part of our Looker Studio Masterclass: Chart Types Overview.

Earlier in this chapter, we created an e-commerce dashboard from scratch in just an hour. We quickly explored almost all of Looker Studio's features. Today, we'll take a closer look at the available chart types and visualizations.

What's Coming Up

In the following chapters we'll cover dashboard planning, data connectors, data modeling, in-depth data visualization, reports, interactions, sharing security, managing reports with clients, and BigQuery. Stay tuned!

Today's Objective: Explore Built-In Charts

We'll discover Looker Studio's built-in charts, their capabilities, and key features. We'll also learn when to use each chart type for data visualization.

Your Visualization Toolbox

We'll cover the following chart types in Looker Studio:

  1. Scorecard
  2. Table
  3. Pivot Table
  4. Time Series
  5. Area Chart
  6. Line Chart
  7. Combo Chart
  8. Bar Chart