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A collection of guides/tutorials and shorter ideas, mainly on analytics and data visualization.

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Automated Daily/Monthly Active User Stats in Google Data Studio

Google Analytics provides information on Daily Active Users (“1 Day Active Users”) and Monthly Active Users (I typically use “28 Day Active Users” since the end-users for the products I’m working on tend to have a strong weekly activity cycle). This is good data to have, but I had a few improvements I wanted to put in place:

  1. View the same info in Google Data Studio so I can display it in an embedded report

  2. Show the report viewer the DAU/MAU ratio (popular metric for product “stickiness”)

  3. Show the report viewer average DAU and MAU stats…

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