Chapter 7: Visualizing Data for Making Data-Driven Decisions with Data Studio

Visualizing data helps stakeholders to concentrate on important KPIs and empowers them to make data-driven decisions. Data engineers need to analyze the underlying structure of the data and also curate custom reporting layers on top to enable the development of dashboards and reports.

This chapter will discuss in detail the dashboarding product Google Data Studio, which can be leveraged to visualize data coming from different sources, including BigQuery, to build compelling reports. And on top of that, we will learn what a data engineer should see from a data visualization point of view. 

At a high level, here is a list of content that will be covered in this chapter:

• Unlocking the power of your data with Data Studio
• From data to metrics in minutes with an illustrative use case
• Understanding how Data Studio can impact the cost of BigQuery
• How to create a materialized view and...