'IT Support for Research' Workshop: Dashboard Tool – Google Data Studio

The Google Data Studio is an online interactive tool from Google which allows researchers to convert real-time data into easy-to-understand reports and beautiful dashboards for sharing and team collaboration.

A workshop on Google Data Studio will be held with details as below. Students who are interested in leveraging a dashboard tool for course assignments and research projects are welcome to join.

'IT Support for Research' Workshop: Dashboard Tool – Google Data Studio

Date: 5 November 2021

Time: 14:30 – 17:00

Target Audience: RPg, TPg and Ug students

Medium of Instruction: English

Course Outline:

1. Introduction to Google Data Studio
2. Preparing Data Set
   • Using Function to import data to Google Sheet
   • Keep your data up to date using Google App Script
   • Data pre-processing in Google Sheet
3. Connecting your data
   • Model your data using Function in Google Data Studio
4. Navigating Google Data Studio
   • Adding figures and controls
   • Adding Graphs and Maps
   • Building Tables
5. Sharing, access permissions and data credentials