--- title: Data Studio Reviews meta_title: 'Data Studio Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 476 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Data Studio works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 476 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-28' parent_category: name: Business Intelligence url: https://www.g2.com/categories/business-intelligence --- # Data Studio Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Data Visualization Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-visualization-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 476 ## About Data Studio Data Studio offers self-service business intelligence with unmatched flexibility for smarter business decisions. Featuring connections to more than 1,000+ data sources, you can create highly visual, intuitive reports and share them with your team with consistent metrics. Data Studio helps you tell impactful stories by creating and sharing engaging reports and data visualization, showcasing your business metrics and dimensions with intuitive smart reports, with automatic sharing for informed collaboation. Create meaningful, shareable, customizable, charts and graphs with just a few clicks, and now, with Gemini in Looker, automatically generate reports, visualizations and slides and save countless hours." ## Data Studio Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Looker Studio's **ease of use** remarkable, enabling effortless dashboard creation and data visualization. (20 reviews) - Users appreciate the **flexibility in data visualization** with Looker Studio, enabling insightful and interactive reporting effortlessly. (11 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integrations** in Looker Studio, allowing seamless connections to various data sources for efficient reporting. (10 reviews) - Users love the **collaborative sharing** features of Looker Studio, enabling seamless teamwork and real-time data access. (7 reviews) - Users love how **Data Studio simplifies complex data visualization** with interactive, customizable dashboards and effortless integration. (7 reviews) - Users praise Looker Studio for its **easy report creation** , enabling quick dashboard setups and extensive data connectivity. (7 reviews) - Flexibility (7 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integrations** with Google tools, enabling quick dashboard creation and efficient data visualization. (5 reviews) - Useful (5 reviews) - Customization (4 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **limited customization** in Looker Studio, impacting the flexibility and effectiveness of their data visualizations. (8 reviews) - Users often find **slow performance** in Looker Studio, especially with heavy data sources or numerous charts. (8 reviews) - Users find **slow loading times** in Looker Studio frustrating, especially with large datasets and multiple charts. (5 reviews) - Users experience frequent **connectivity issues** with Looker Studio, often requiring multiple attempts to establish data connections. (4 reviews) - Users find the **limited design options** in Data Studio frustrating, affecting customization and overall user experience. (4 reviews) - Users find **limitations in storage** as Looker Studio struggles with larger datasets, impacting performance and customization options. (3 reviews) - Users find **limited features** in Looker Studio for professional use, especially compared to premium alternatives like Tableau. (3 reviews) - Users often face **debugging issues** with Looker Studio, requiring multiple attempts to establish data connections successfully. (2 reviews) - Interface Navigation (2 reviews) - Users find that **learning difficulty** arises due to complex data blending and advanced visualizations being less intuitive. (2 reviews) ## Data Studio Reviews ### 1. Scalable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michaela C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It's pretty easy to use and set up, I would say it is an ideal solution for small and mid size businesses as it is easy to adapt and change to a business' growing needs. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** There aren't a lot of direct customer support options, but that's not an issue for me personally **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can aggregate all of my metrics without having to pay for a ton of integrators ### 2. Versatile and professionally looking tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Huascar S. | Q, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I can build dashboards that are easy to explain, navigate, and share with team members. The tool's versatility allows me to present data in many different ways, and it integrates with different data sources. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** If there is a slight change in the database, it breaks the graphs instead of refreshing and applying the changes automatically. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing data visibility to all team members. Blending data to create granular and complex reporting making them easy to understand. ### 3. Good software for data visualization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Fully free with Google account access. It lets users create highly customizable and interactive reports, connects to Google products like BigQuery, Sheets, Ads, Analytics, and external databases. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Slow dashboard when it comes to visualising big data.Fewer advanced visualization and formatting options compared to tools like Power BI or Tableau. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Raw data is hard to interpret; traditional BI tools can be expensive or complex. Hence, Looker Studio lets you visualize data quickly, build interactive dashboards, and share insights with teams in real time—all without writing code. ### 4. Good BI application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed H. | Data Entry Clerk, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Its user-friendly interface and free accessibility for creating insightful data visualizations are what I find best about Looker Studio. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Looker Studio can be slow with large datasets and has limitations in data blending and customization. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker Studio centralizes data visualization and reporting, saving me time and providing clearer insights. ### 5. Great user experience with looker studio **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashok S. | Product Manager , Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I like Looker Studio best for its ability to quickly transform raw data from various sources into interactive, customizable, and shareable dashboards and reports. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Performance issues with large Dataset such as loading dashboard **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker Studio solves data fragmentation and the laborious process of manual reporting by centralizing and visualizing diverse data sources, enabling faster, data-driven decisions and better collaboration. ### 6. GREAT FOR VISUALIZATIONS AND DASHBOARDS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian M. | Assistant Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I like how easy it is to connect my data to looker studio. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** I dislike some of the buggyness. Sometimes I will have to set my data connection more than once before it will connect. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were looking for something that was easy to use. Our team is new to data analytics and Looker Studio has met our needs for visualizations ### 7. Practical way to get real-time insights **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Providing real-time data with a custom setup. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Sometimes is hard to determine how data should be displayed. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralizing data from different sources. ### 8. Easy Data Visualization tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul K. | Founder, Arts and Crafts, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Data Template currently I'm using the GA4 Template and Google webmaster **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** I am not exploring it much I am just using GA4 and Google Webmaster data to analyze my website traffic and other metrics **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use and with all data in a single dashboard, Looker Studio helps collect GA4, Google Webmaster, and Google Ads data in a single dashboard. We do not need to log in to every tool one by one; just connect GA4, Google Webmaster, and Google Ads data source to Looker Studio, and your data comes in a single dashboard with easy-to-understand graph data. Its help to Collab all platform data in a single dashboard. ### 9. Does the job but glitches sometimes **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin M. | Quality Assurance Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It allows you to create many different dashboards . **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** It glitches and disconnects from Google sheets. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to create dashboards and share them with clients. ### 10. Simple Data Connection and Effortless Dashboard Creation for Scalable Analytics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Everhard O. | Sales Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It is a tool that has direct connections to various common database systems like Excel, BigQuery, etc., so the ETL process is completely automated, which is very helpful. Once in the software, it is simple to use and offers a wide range of data transformations and calculated fields. My favorite aspect is that it is so fast, and even if you're querying dashboards at scale, you can use BI Engine with BigQuery to maintain high performance. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** "It lacks some functionality for time comparisons and other types of comparisons. Tableau, for example, offers a more robust set of date and comparison-related features. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It accelerates access to key insights, enabling faster decision-making. ### 11. A very good intro to the reporting world **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Integration with all of Google product suite **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Need of extra products to automate data from Facebook and other platforms **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting in flexible manners, beyond the GA ui ### 12. Best tool of google **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Balkrishna K. | Senior Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It's very easy to use, and the UI is also very user-friendly. Support is good. Integration is very useful. I use it daily to refresh the reports. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** As of now i didnt find anything to dislike. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its very eary to integrate with the google tools and other as well. Due to which we can refresh the data and analyse it ### 13. My digital reporting tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raúl S. | PPC Account Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** What I like most about Looker Studio is that it is a free tool with a lot of versatility. It is easy to use and you can find a large number of courses and help on the Internet or YouTube. It is very simple to integrate it with Google products. I have been using it for many years, since it was Data Studio, and I am delighted. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** What I like least is that for platforms external to Google, it is often necessary to have independent payment connectors. Customer support for Looker Studio from Google is minimal. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker Studio allows you to bring clarity to the reporting of your website's results. It also allows you to display data in various forms (graphs, tables, KPIs...) and in a very visual way, facilitating interpretation and enabling you to make decisions accordingly. ### 14. Easy for use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jean Luis S. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It is ideal when you want to create in a fast way a dashboard and you want to connect with several data tools as big query, snowflake or even google drive. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Though it is really easy to use, it lacks on personalization and specific customizations to do on the tiles. There are not many, graph tiles to use for. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Control several KPIs that I need to manage. It is really friendly to use and also it is really easy to share with other people although are not in your organization ### 15. Helpful Reporting Dashboard **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Megan F. | Account Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker Studio is a great reporting dashboard. It makes it easier to display, analyze and share data. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Looker Studio can be slow and lag at times. Also can be limited with data size. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker Studio allows us to easily share data with clients through the dashboard and exporting reports. It is easy to navigate and read which allows accessibility for all. ### 16. Easy to integrate different tables into single explore **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul J. | Data Analytics Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Automatic query generation on the basis of backend lookml **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** A lot of time have to make changes on lookml, frontend sql functions are very limited **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** No need to write SQL query every time to pull the data ### 17. Great reporting tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anne K. | Digital Marketing Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I love the way you can present data from multiple sources in one report. I also love the ability to blend different tables and show the information in one chart. It is easy to use and the clients love how interactive the online report is allowing them to sort by different columns, change the date range, export data to excel. Very professional reports. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** some Google ads data isn't available in Looker Studio, so I have to extract from Google ads to Google Sheets and then display the Google sheet information. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Much easier and quicker to generate monthly reports for my clients. The report is also very professional. Looker Studio has some great templates that I have used as a start. ### 18. One of the most versatile tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sakhephi S. | Team Leader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker studio allows you to create and edit reports easily. Allows massive creativity. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Looker studio needs more report downloading options such as word and pdf **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to download data into an excel file saving loads of time. ### 19. Great value but ultimately quite frustrating if you want to combine different platforms **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pete G. | Junior Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker is really powerful and very effective at presenting complex data - included blended metrics - in a very clean and visually appealing way **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Unfortunately, connectors break quite regularly and reports containing a lot of data can take a lengthy time to load **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Translating platform data into something meaningful for clients is an obstacle that Looker overcomes really effectively ### 20. Quick, simple, and accessible dashboards. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raúl C. | Head of Digital Analytics, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** The ease of use, it is really simple to connect a data source and start building very simple and useful tables and charts. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Loading times. Despite having improved significantly since the incorporation of Looker technology into the old Data Studio, if you build combined data sources (something essential if you want to perform some calculations), you will see that the loading time is heavily burdened. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is vital for teams to know the performance of ecommerce in their areas of impact. Looker allows you to tailor the context to the recipient's needs so that decision-making regarding data is quick and effective. ### 21. Love Looker Studio - So easy to integrate and build amazing client dashboards **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Russell O. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Its so easy to use, from a simple template, or to more complex templates and dashboards. Easy to integrate and implement for bringing in all sorts of data feeds to show and share with clients **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Sometimes its a bit of a pain to refresh/update some of the feeds **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its easy to integrate with lots of different data feeds and pull in Google Analytics data to share with clients ### 22. Excellent data visualisation tool, easy to use once you get the hang of it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edward W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker Studio has a huge range of different data visualisation formats for you to pick and choose from. The WYSYWIG layout editor makes it really easy to create smart looking reports that are fully branded up. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** The main downsides to it are that sometimes there are data caching issues. The data gets refreshed every 15 mins so sometimes when a chart / table has "data connection" problems there is no way to manully purge the cache. You just have to wait for it to re-fetch the data itself. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a lot of insights data which gets pulled from different sources like Google Sheets, Analytics, APIs etc. Looker allows us to create a range of easy to use reports pulling data from a number of different sources all into once place. ### 23. Great for Data Consolidation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam G. | Marketing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I like that it shows all data in one place **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** It can be very slow when editing which makes it hard to use **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enables me to keep all my Google Data in one place without having to switch between programs like Analytics and Adwords ### 24. Lookerstudio client reports **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashley M. | Traffic Coordinator Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** The way we are using it is to help show clients their assets that have run by asset type and its been the most successful for us. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** The way it downloads as a pdf sometimes. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manually making client reports and giving a ton of time back to our teams ### 25. Best tools for customization of report and data with Analyzing base format **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil G. | Growth markering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** best tool for creation the reportm it is very ease to ues.its have many features, it is very esay to implmataion **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Comparison data with with diffrenet time line from same google sheet is not creating a proper report **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are crating a best data Visulisation and analysis from the data base via google sheet and database. ### 26. "Disappointing Experience for Performance Marketers" **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai P. | Performance Marketer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Unfortunately, as a performance marketer, I found Looker Studio to be quite limited in meeting my specific needs. While the interface is visually appealing and offers some customization options, it lacks the depth and functionality required for in-depth performance analysis. It falls short of providing the necessary features to track and optimize marketing campaigns effectively. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** What I dislike about Looker Studio is its limited ability to handle large datasets efficiently. When working with extensive data, the platform tends to slow down, which hampers productivity during critical hours. As a performance marketer, I often need to work with substantial amounts of data, and this performance limitation significantly impacts my workflow. Another drawback I've encountered is the difficulty in blending data from different sources to build comprehensive graphs. Looker Studio has limitations in this aspect, making it challenging to create cohesive visualizations that incorporate data from various channels or platforms. This limitation restricts my ability to gain holistic insights and hampers my efforts in creating comprehensive reports. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a performance marketer, I rely heavily on detailed analytics and optimization capabilities to drive campaign success. Unfortunately, Looker Studio falls short in meeting these requirements. It lacks advanced features for tracking conversion funnels, conducting granular performance analysis, and implementing sophisticated attribution models. Without these essential functionalities, it becomes challenging to make data-driven decisions and optimize marketing efforts effectively. ### 27. Fantastic visualization tool for marketing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucy T. | Owner & CEO, Furniture, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It integrates fantastically with all of our marketing platforms. We usually have trouble with setting up software that consolidates data from a few different tools but we didn't have to set up any custom data connections at all with Looker **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Some of our dashboards take a really long time to fully load. This especially causes problems when we're presenting or trying to show others our marketing KPIs. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Looker to consolidate data from our marketing tools. Without it, we'd either have to remember the data we get from each tool or manually bring them together or do similar inefficient things to be able to see all our data together. But with Looker, we easily set up our tools together and can monitor our KPIs with it. Very happy overall ### 28. A Useful Data Visualization Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhani M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I find this tool easy-to-use for creating tables, maps, reports, and graphs. Even, it's easy to integrate with other Google platforms. What I like the most is that this data visualization tool comes at free of cost. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Sometimes I need to be more knowledgeable to use this tool. Dashboard takes time to update. It takes more time to load large sized data. When I create more complex reports, the tool gets slow and emerge with glitches also. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It plots the tables and charts quickly where other tools takes time. I can organize almost everything on my dashboard in interactive and easy way. When I need reports quickly, this tool helps me with fast data ingestion and report creation. ### 29. Reporting looks cool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mari A. | Accounts & Revenue Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker studio turns the boring reports into an art which everyone understands easily **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Can add more feature and integration with various platforms **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to send manual reports everyday, with looker studio, I have only only update the data and the report gets send out automatically everyday ### 30. Modern and Better data visualising tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sooryaprabhath P. | Front-end developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I like the way it displays data and visual charts which are colorful and also with proper data and the customizable part is the most impressive thing in the dashboard. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** I dislike some parts of customization which is for beginners it is hard to understand and need more guide while customizing for a beginner. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker Studio solved my problem of showing clients data in such a format that analyzing data made it so easy and because of beautiful visual charts, it made my dashboard more appealing in client calls. ### 31. Looker studio review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** The ability to connect to different data sources Merge data options Visualisations of the data **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Whilst easy to set up initially with connections it can be very overwhelming for a beginner when trying to turn the data into something meaningful **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Filter out the stories I went to see or review which saves me having to find it at the original source of the data ### 32. Best Analytics tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akhil A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Data can be easily navigated without extensive knowledge of tech. The interactive dashboard can be made within minutes. Very easy to build data models, I am a big fan of its data security capability. You can give access permission to selected people which avoids data breaches within and outside the organization. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** It starts lagging when the data is too large. If the data source table has an issue, then the looker studio's visualization is also impacted, and one important thing is Pricing it's costly to construct the dashboard on looker studio. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our organization the management & strategy team has to see the clicks, impressions, buyer engagement data on a daily basis so with the help of looker studio we can see the GMV impact in our organization on a daily basis. ### 33. Great visuals but complicated to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna C. | Order Opener, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I love how it looks to my team once all data is entered. It's end user friendly. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Looker has a lot of different definitions for their data sources, that make the creation a bit difficult. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to visualize our teams level of effort, state guidelines and client status. ### 34. I hate Looker Studio. Hate it, hate it, hate it. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It seems to have the potential of being useful. This potential isn't easily realized, but it's there. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** It is incredibly complex and difficult to use. I get thwarted at every step when I'm trying to create reports. I am a power user of Excel and can generally pick up software very easily. Looker Studio is completely unintuitive. Every single thing is a challenge-- adding data sources, adding new calculated fields, and —god forbid— blending data. I rarely come away from a session of making or editing reports in Looker Studio where I'm not screaming in frustration. It is simply one of the worst business tools I have ever used. Free and worth actually less than that somehow. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's theoretically helping us pull monthly reports. ### 35. Best free data visialisation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeroen D. | Senior Online Marketeer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Easy to use and connect to Google platforms **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Might take a bit getting used to when trying to get blended data **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Month to month and year to year progress ### 36. Excellent web based application for free **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** What I like the most about Looker Studio is the ease of use and the Google connectors that are already available to connect your data from Google Sheets to this solution. After the connection is done, the rest is easy so you can create your own boards with different types of graphs, and customize them with the colors of your company, for example. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** I wish Looker Studio could connect to PostgreSQL databases with SSH or VPN connections **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The way to show insights based on data, and processing tons of data and cross them with other data sets so you can have as an outcome easy to digest information for high level reports or detailed reports. ### 37. Looker Studio Overview **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduberto K. | Diretor de operações, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Ease of creating data visualization, friendly interface, native connectors for those using Google platforms, quick access and free use through gmail. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Crossing data through the blend is an important internal feature, but it often doesn't work very well and the data often breaks. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker Studio helps me control and visualize internal data and campaigns carried out on multiple digital marketing platforms, facilitating quick vision for accurate control. ### 38. Ecellent Experience! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash N. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** The interface is very easy to learn as well as versatile, which gives us options to select a vast selection of fonts and colors.There are various options of visual presentation of data and it can easily refresh data from different sources! **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Sometimes it gets slow with large data as well as working for lengthier hours.Building graphs from scratch is difficult as it has some limitation in blending data from different sources. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** this Studio is great for creating simple graphs out of larger datasets that are continuously being updated. there are formula functions to help with manipulating data and get the data that users need, even though it can be difficult and time-consuming for beginners, but with experience this platform could be of great help. ### 39. Looker Studio Positive Feedback **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devadiga V. | Marketing Executive, Luxury Goods & Jewelry, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker Studio was helpful for analyzing the data from any segments and creating it and see the report in a clear and easy way. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** If we add data from 2 source then the looker studio doesnt work and sometimes the load time is high **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analysing Data and ending up in final conclusion what we want to do in future according to the results ### 40. Very easly to use platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandro F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Easy to use, easy to connect. Always updated. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Sometimes It crashes and you're not able to understand why **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** free tool, help me to visualize data, building report and powerful charts ### 41. Good for visualizing data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephanie E. | Digital Producer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker Studio is a helpful tool for visualizing data and highlighting important data points. It has a smaller learning curve and is more streamlined than some other data visualization software like Tableau. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** I have no dislikes about Looker Studio at this time. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker Studio solves our problem of needing a lower lift, less effort method of presenting and sharing data so that multiple stakeholders can benefit. The ease of access solves some of our problems regarding accessibility. ### 42. Easy to use data visualization tool that can be used to show trends and anomalies to stakeholders! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Catherine G. | Manager, Web Experience | Marketing & Brand Management Office, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** The variety of visualizations is incredible, I often will look at a certain metric or dimension with several different charts to fully understand what the story is with the data and how it could be combined with other metrics. The ability to schedule automated reports has also been a huge help in spreading knowledge about our web properties amongst my Digital Marketing team. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** The quota limits that recently were brought in will unfortunately force many users to leave Looker. I do also love seeing templates and ways that others have used Looker Studio dashboards for a variety of industries - having a "show room" or training would be a great way to get suers excited about what's possible! **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything from a high-level veiew of our web traffic to the goals and conversions established in GA. My department also combined web data with the cost associated with paid media, this is extremely helpful to be able to pair GA data with other sources. My biggest takeaway that I get out of Looker that can't be shown in GA is creating YOY charts that go several years back, monitoring performance on certain page and certain events across our web products. ### 43. Very functional **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juliana R. | Head de Mídia On, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** The possibility of gathering various data in one place and being able to cross-reference them is the best part. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Limitation of some data cross-references. And the lack of clarity in the formulas. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** He pulls the data in real-time which helps the client visualize the data more quickly. ### 44. All your Google data in one place **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ouali B. | CEO & Founder, Education Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Having a simple dashboard to see data in a panel that makes it easy to understand and take decisions. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Maybe being able to connect more data Sources, but it's free and pretty much give you a complete view of you google data. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** both for us internally and for our clients, we get to create for free multiple data visualization panels and boards that help read better the data, understand and make decisions. ### 45. Easy dashboard sharing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It's simple and straightforwad. It's intuitive, which makes it easy for anyone in your team to build the reports they need. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** It's limited. You can build basic dashboards, but you can't incorporate data from different sources at the same time. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a shared dashboard so we all can see important data from all teams. ### 46. All-in-one solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan O. | BI Analyst, Hospitality, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I'm not entirely sure if all visualization tools have additional costs, but I can confirm that this is one of the best. It is very accessible, and has many connectors and integrated graphs that allow you to visualize your data very well.. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Something I don't like very much is that there isn't really very active support when problems occur with the platform, and that's wrong considering that today there is a large community that makes use of this tool. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool has become our daily life since we see all the data there... ### 47. Essential **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** It is very helpful in everyday work. I use it frequently. Easy to navigate and best in class. It also has numerous features which are helpful in cloud platforms. Best integration **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** None as of now. I didn't find any difficulty with it. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I pull a lot of data from Looker on a daily basis. It stores loads of data which is beneficial using SQL ### 48. Looker effortlessly streamlines dashboarding **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker makes building ad-hoc dashboards effortless - once a template is made, it's as easy as plug and play to get client-ready dashboards ready to send over. Versus competitors like Whatagraph, Looker is a thousand times more advanced. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Looker has a tendency to bury features behind obscure solutions - often the solution to any issue is possible within Looker, but requires a hunt to locate. Additionally, the way looker handles tables could be improved by allowing stacked dimensions akin to a pivot table, instead of having multiple columns dedicated to displaying the same data repetively. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker solves the issue of getting client-ready campaign reporting done quickly, with the ability to automatically refresh, and copy from a template that ensures that each campaign's dashboard set-up is as quick and effortless as possible. ### 49. Best Data Visualization Platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raksha S. | Business Operations Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** Looker Studio has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for users to navigate, explore, and visualize data. Looker Studio can connect to various data sources, including databases, spreadsheets, and cloud services, making it easy to access and analyze data from multiple sources. Looker Studio provides a wide range of data analysis and visualization capabilities, including the ability to create interactive dashboards, reports, and charts. Looker Studio allows users to share data visualizations and insights with others, making it easy to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders. Looker Studio can integrate with other tools and platforms, such as Google Analytics, Salesforce, and Tableau, making it a versatile and powerful data exploration and visualization tool. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** Looker Studio is quite expensive, especially for large organizations or those with high data usage. The platform can be sometimes complex to navigate and understand, especially for those without a strong background in data analytics or programming. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improve decision-making: With easy access to accurate and up-to-date data, we can make informed decisions based on real-time data. Increase efficiency: Looker Studio automates data collection and analysis, reducing the time and resources required to manually process data. Enhance collaboration: The tool enables teams to share data and insights, improving communication and collaboration among departments and teams. Identify trends and patterns: Looker Studio's visualizations and dashboards make it easy to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies in data, allowing organizations to make proactive decisions. Overall, Looker Studio is benefiting us by providing them with actionable insights from their data, enabling them to make better decisions and achieve their goals more efficiently. ### 50. Very agile tool to connect and chart data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Data Studio?** I love how you can connect it to so many different tools. We have a couple tools that are getting really old now, and most of our other new software can't integrate with them, but thanks to Looker, we can get our data from them no problem. **What do you dislike about Data Studio?** It crashes often. You have to go in and re-map the charts everytime the data source changes up a bit. I thing the integrations could be improved to eliminate this a bit. **What problems is Data Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looker has helped us connect our data from a dozen sources and be able to create charts and tables with it. Thanks to it, we don't have to look at separate bits of data from separate tools, but we can consolidate everything in one dashboard and monitor our metrics easile and more thoroughly. 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