As every writer knows, a picture is worth a thousand words; and in the field of data science, a good visualization is worth its weight in. As someone still incredibly new to this industry and skillset, I can’t speak from a place of expertise, but as a neophyte data engineer, I arrived at my new company with some pandas in my pocket and the bright city lights in my eyes. My team had been collecting a wealth of fantastic, mostly clean data…but nobody had the time or expertise to transform it into something actionable. What they had discovered in their quest for understanding was perhaps the greatest tool for fledgling data scientists: Google Data Studio.
When I first began playing with its interface, I scoffed and huffed. It wasn’t Pandas, it wasn’t Seaborn, and I’d just spent hundreds of hours learning how to use my fancy new Python skills in the work place so I was determined to do so. That said, the more I worked with it, the more I came to understand the truly powerful nature of Google Data Studio, or GDS, as the cool kids call it.
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