Data Studio Fields & Filters – Notes

Once you’ve created a field – add it to your chart as a Dimension

Mixed Case URLs

Having a mix of URL cases in the letters can faff with your data as D.S. might think each capitalisation variation is a new URL:

• Click on the Data Tab to the right – then “Create new field” or “Add a Field”

• Name the field “Lower Source” type in “LOWER(“
• Then add “Source” from “Available Fields” to the left

• Click “Save” and add “Lower Source” to the table as a Dimension

Concatenate Data

• Create or “Add a Field”
• In the Formula box type “CONCAT” and then select the fields you want to use
• Close the formula with the final “)” and save it

Internal Site Searches – Extract Search Query

Make the data look nicer and get the search term on its own in the table.

• Select to a “Add a Field”
• Use REGEXP_EXTRACT formula to pull out the search terms and get rid of “/search?q”
• Use the REGEX shown below:

Search Queries – Pull Out Questions – What, Why, When?

• Create / Add a New Field
• Add REGEX as shown below and save

• Add New Field as a Dimension to the table
• Create a table/data Filter so that you include only table rows that equate to “True” in the new dimension/column

CASE Formulas in Data Studio

CASE formulas are basically “If this, then do that” formulas

When X happens, Then do Y

You can use the CASE Formula to classify and group channels together

For example:

WHEN query matches “who”, then display text “Who?” in the table

• In the Formula – you need a “catch all” default for when nothing is true in the criteria
• If the search doesn’t contain “who, what, why” etc. then:
  ELSE “others”
  So if the search term, doesn’t match any of the REGEX criteria – classify it as “others”

– Save the CASE statement

• Add the new field – to the table or report

Date Ranges & Filter Controls

Taken me ages to work this out – I’ve only just twigged:

You can add Comparisons, Search Boxes, Drop Down Menus and all sorts to your Data Studio Reports

For controls and filters to work – you need the chart or table to have “Default Date Range” set to “Auto”

See my post about REGEX for SEO here.

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