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New Google Data Studio features give analysts quicker and broader access to data

September 15, 2017

Nick Mihailovski

Product Manager

Editor’s note: Last week, the Google Data Studio team announced new features that make it even more useful for creating and sharing rich, visual reports that accelerate time-to-insight from data in a Google BigQuery-powered data warehouse. We’ve re-posted a version of the original announcement below for your convenience.

Over the past six months we’ve launched over 25 new features in Google Data Studio including: offering the product at no charge and making it available globally, adding support for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and providing many new report layout options. Overall feedback has been great!

Now we’re adding new features so you can access your data even faster.

Community Connectors developer launch

We want to make it easy to access all your data within Data Studio. Today we're launching a new Data Studio “Community Connectors” developer program allowing you to visualize data from any source.

Community Connectors are created using Google Apps Scripts and are easy to build (our UX team even built one to monitor bitcoin prices). Once created, a connector can be shared with other users, who can then use the connector to access their own data.

Today we have over 10 partners who have built connectors to over 200 sources, and we’re excited to welcome more developers and data providers to the Data Studio community. Check out the Community Connector Gallery to explore what our partners have built.

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Data Studio Community Connector Gallery

Embedded reports

Many customers want to bring Data Studio reports into their workflows, or publish Data Studio reports on their own websites. Now you can embed Data Studio reports in your websites and apps using simple iframe embedding. To see your report in your site, edit it, select Report > File > Embed, then put the HTML code snippet into an iframe. Embeds can be fully interactive, and support both private, public, and non-logged in access, giving you fine-grained control over who can see your data.This new capability will allow you to share compelling data stories through your public websites and blogs, or share critical insights using your own business applications for no additional cost.

Data control

Large organizations and agencies often have access to many accounts; for example, thousands of AdWords accounts, or hundreds YouTube channels. To simplify reporting, the new data control allows you to reuse a single report across all your accounts, dramatically reducing the time it takes to view data in a report. The data control can also be used to templatize reports, allowing viewers to see their data in a report without having to create anything in Data Studio. The data control supports the following connectors: AdWords (Account & MCC), YouTube Analytics, Search Console, DoubleClick Campaign Manager, and Google Analytics. We plan to add support for more connectors in the future.

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