I am having trouble with two things trying to setup my report on Google Data Studio.
Using numbers with dates.
I have some numeric values to use with dates. However, I have the same date for different values and google sums up those values and I need them separated.
Also, when a certain day does not have any value, google gives it value 0 and I cant have that because the value isnt 0, I just need it to skip those days. I have generated a graph as an example.
I can´t generate a graph using text as a dimension. I think I am doing something wrong but I wasn´t able to.
Table:
Graph:
1) On the line chart, set the date as dimension, set the city as the breakdown dimension, the clicks as the metric.
2) create a chart filter and exclude when the "clicks are null"
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I have a table of events from google sheets that I want users to be able to filter by date in Google Looker Studio. The events have various lengths, so each has a start and an end date in the table (as well as a bunch of other columns). For example:
Event
Start Date
End Date
A
02/15/2023
02/20/2023
B
03/01/2023
04/30/2023
C
02/23/2023
03/01/2023
I want users to be able to filter for anything that is happening in the event range they select. For example, if they input the date range 02/26/2023 - 03/15/2023, the table should filter down to show events B and C, since those have ranges overlapping their input data range.
I've tried a few different approaches that all have drawbacks:
Using the Looker Studio date range control. This seems to only filter based on the Start Date OR the End Date, and not have the ability to look at both.
Applying a Date Filter in the chart. If I apply the following filter (under Chart - Filter - Table Filter), it works great to show anything overlapping the desired date range:
Include - Start Date - Less than or equal to - 03/15/2023
AND
Include - End Date - Greater than or equal to - 02/26/2023
However, I had to put these dates directly into the filter, which is not what the user should have to do. Is there a way I can have them input the date range they are interested as a control, and I can feed that information into the Date Filter above? (So they would put in a start date and end date that would replace where I have hard coded 02/26/2023 and 03/15/2023 above).
I have also set up this filter in Google Sheets to work exactly as I want it. Anyone can enter a start date and end date in a couple cells, and I use the filter() function with the same logic as in #2 above to filter the table down to what I want. The disadvantage of google sheets though, is if multiple people are there at the same time, they do not have their own view of the report. I switched to Looker Studio because it allows view-only users to filter their report independently.
Edited to add: This report is intended to be used by viewers with limited experience using google sheets or looker studio, and possibly on phone or browser, so I'm trying to make the filtering as easy as possible.
the ability to filter data independently & at the same time for multiple users is natively possible in google sheets with Filter Views:
I have 2 tabs relating to the graph I'm working with. I have multiple graphs all working properly but one in particular. I have tried selecting different ranges to use for the data range, I have tried using different types of graphs. All the same I get the same results. The other graphs use the same information from the same table.
The graph's purpose is to compare the Highest Price and the Lowest Price per item. HERE is a link to a sample sheet with the same information as the original. Thank you for any help you can give!
values needs to be numeric not text string so in worst case a conversion is needed:
=ArrayFormula({INDEX(SPLIT(F4:F13, " "),,1), INDEX(SPLIT(G4:G13, " "),,1)})
and then you can plot your chart...
I'm using Google Sheets, and wanted to do a Data Studio "real time" report, based on the data in the sheet.
The sheet contains data from an issue management program.
My data in the sheet exactly:
Issue type (string), Work time (number), issue created at (date), issue resolved at (date)
I successfully created a pie chart that's dimension is: Issue type and metric: Work time
I can see that all the data in the pie chart.
Now my problem is:
I can't filter this chart with a date range.
The date is in a correct format: YYYYMMDD
but I can't describe to data studio, which date column it should filter when I set a date range in the control.
Is it possible some way to create two date range filter and one of them filter on created date, and the other one filter on resolved at date?
Thank all of you!
Roland
Check to make sure that the date range you're filtering by is the first date column from the left in your Sheet. If it's not, then Data Studio gets confused and doesn't work properly.
I'm not sure if you can have two different dates in two different filters. The graphs wouldn't know which filter to follow.
Finally I deleted the connection between the sheet and the report, and started again everything, and it works fine. I think I created the connection when the date was not in a correct format, I changed it after making the connection.
I'm an AP Biology student and am trying to create a mathematical model for a Hardy-Weinberg lab using Google Spreadsheet. Here is the link to the spreadsheet. The problem is located on the "Gene Flow" tab on N111.
So I am trying to add all the number values above N until it hits a certain number. That quantity of organisms is dependent on the total number of organisms AFTER the migration of Generation 1. And that migration is just random chance of whether some will leave or arrive. By adding up the new generation, I need to calculate the genotypes of their offspring (a.k.a. Generation 2), assuming there is 1:1 ratio between each generation.
Here is the code I tried:
=SUM(N6:N(SUM(F107:H107)+6))
However, the error I receive is Argument must be an range.
Is there a way to properly express this through Google Spreadsheet?
You could use the INDIRECT function. It returns a cell/range reference with only a string as input. For example:
=SUM(INDIRECT("N6:N"&(SUM(F107:H107)+6)))
I have essentially a log file in a Google Sheets. Columns are "Date/time", "user", "asset accessed", and there will be multiple entries for the same date, though usually not time.
I'd like to use the timeline graph to show user activity, but the graph requires an aggregate view with one date (no time) per row, with a numeric count in second col. Is there a way using functions within Google Sheets to generate an aggregate "view" of this data and pass this to the timeline graph?
Well, I guess you'll have to create an auxiliary sheet, or just some columns with the summarized values for you chart.
From your description, I'll assume you're using 3 columns (ABC). Let's use columns D, E and F with the following formulas:
=ArrayFormula(Trunc(A:A))
=Unique(D:D)
=ArrayFormula(CountIf(D:D;E:E))
Since date values are actually a number (qtt of days since the epoch), and hours are decimals, the Trunc formula gets rid of the "time" part and leaves only the date. Just format the cells (apparently numbers) as dates and you'll see. Then Unique and CountIf do the summarizing.
There's surely different ways of doing this, perhaps more "elegantly", in a single formula. But I think that in this way it's more easy to understand and learn from. Also, you'll probably need to adapt the ranges to your actual columns positions (I hope that's not a problem).