2.1. Overview of Chart Types in Looker Studio

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

9. Geo Maps (including Google Maps)

10. Pie Charts (and when not to use them)

11. Scatter and Bubble Charts

12. Tree Map

13. Bullet Chart

14. Gauge Chart

Get ready to expand your visualization toolbox and make the most of Looker Studio!