Looker Studio 2025 roadmap and announced new features
Few days ago, the Google Cloud BI team introduced the roadmap of Looker & Looker Studio products. Sean Zinsmeister and his team started by presenting a recap of the positioning of the tools before revealing what is planed in the roadmap for Looker…and Looker Studio.
Let’s debrief the announcements for Looker Studio and Looker Studio Pro users, and highlight the mentioned upcoming new features.
Modernized Charts
Refreshed User Interface for charts with stylized visualization & improved editing experience. A nice opportunity for new styles & design to pamper our time series, bar charts, donut charts and other key chart types. Have you see how a donut chart is more acceptable with rounded angles and a unique sector?
Responsive Layout
The capability to create responsive reports based on “sections” (new concept for grid design corresponding to page slices) that will automatically adapt the content following the browser width – so mobile friendly. It was not mentioned but I suppose that the Looker Studio mobile app will be no more necessary thanks to this kind of report (maybe shutdown?). Definitely a welcomed feature.
Data Preview
A new interface to make reviews of data sets before feeding charts with them.
I often recommend to create a flat table with all dimensions and metrics required for a chart to understand the data model or debug a blending. Here a nice feature that encourages to adopt good process of validation as a data practitioner.
Dynamic Text
A new viz type to insert dynamic data as part of a text element. We will no more need to create a one-row table chart for our McKinsey titles and other narrative or contextual elements. A nice to have.
There are a lot of other features in preparation, in addition to these feature highlights, and in addition to what we already know about Gemini AI integration for Conversational Analytics, Formula Assistant, and automatic Google Slides generation.
At last, to answer to a question from the audience, Jennifer Skene had clarified one important thing:
“Looker Studio and Looker Studio Pro will continue to exist outside of Looker.”
No surprise, of course, but always happy to hear it regularly.
So, congratulations to the Google Cloud BI team for the tremendous amount of work in progress. Big investments and great ambitions for the future. đ
Congrats also for this webinar nicely prepared, with a lot of shared information.
I hope also now that this roadmap with be progressively released, accompanied by continuous improvements for a better technical performance targeting an always stable data loading and a better UI responsiveness.
I know that it is part of the concerns of the LS team.
Thank you for all of this and keep going.
