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Data Without Detours: Building a Direct SKY API to Looker Studio Connection
Google’s Looker Studio empowers you to tell rich, meaningful data stories to make informed data-driven decisions. Now, imagine a world where it was possible to pull ‘real-time’ Blackbaud data directly into Looker Studio dashboards without the intermediary steps of spreadsheets! This world exists, but finding your way there can sometimes feel like navigating an obstacle course with a map you can’t read. Oftentimes, the alternatives look like manually pulling CSV files out of Blackbaud lists and pasting into a Google Sheet (which ends up being stale data), or utilizing scripting to automate the data pulls from the SKY API into a Google Sheet (which keeps the data fresh, but requires a middle step and expertise), or just giving up and not doing it at all. Google provides documentation on creating your own Custom Connector to make this possible. Join me as I share the resources available to accomplish this as well as a proof of concept project to get you inspired. While implementing this solution requires some solid coding experience, this session is available to anyone who is looking to learn and make connections with like-minded folks.
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K-12 School Management
