Google Data Studio - Excel on steroids for free

I have seen some people referring to one of the popular data visualization tool as Excel on steroids. Based on that, I think Google Data Studio is soon going to become the Excel on steroids tool for free. Thanks Google for bringing this amazing product.

For those who are new to this, Google Data Studio is the data analysis and visualization platform from Google, and it's free to use.


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