Hello! I am trying to use Looker to track daily spend for my company's partners. I created a blend that pulls in spend data from three different data sources to account for each partner, then used a custom field "Daily Spend" with the following formula: SUM(COALESCE(Spend,Media Cost,Cost))
So far, I have a pivot table that shows daily spend for each partner in the current month. However, I use this tracker to pace our estimated spend for the entire month. Is there a way to replace the null values for future days in the month with a daily estimate for each partner? I'm open to different methods of achieving this, whether it replaces the null values with the partner's average daily spend for the month so far or if there's a way to input a chosen value in place of the nulls.
Here's an idea of what the pivot table looks like so far for the current month (the rest of the dates in august would be null):
Date | Partner 1 | Partner 2 | Partner 3 | Grand Total |
8/1/2024 | $300 | $100 | $0 | $400 |
8/2/2024 | $200 | $100 | $500 | $800 |
8/3/2024 | $300 | $100 | $200 | $600 |
8/4/2024 | $300 | $100 | $300 | $700 |
8/5/2024 | $300 | $400 | $100 | $800 |
8/6/2024 | $100 | $200 | $200 | $500 |
8/7/2024 | $200 | $100 | $500 | $800 |
8/8/2024 | $300 | $200 | $100 | $600 |
8/9/2024 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Hi @alexis4 , thanks so much for your post!
There's currently no built in way to forecast in Looker Studio, but that is a great feature idea for us to add in the future! If you are able, can you file a feature request and let our team know more about your use case, and functionality you are looking for? Here are directions on how to do so: https://support.google.com/looker-studio/answer/7340016
In the meantime, I did come across this resource that seems to provide a workaround: https://help.funnel.io/en/articles/5140183-how-to-create-a-forecast-for-your-monthly-advertising-spe.... I want to add the caveat that this method is not officially supported, but wanted to share in case it might be helpful.
Another alternative is using the Looker application, which does have a built-in forecasting feature, as documented here: https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/forecasting-in-visualizations. If you are able to access your data from a Looker Explore, I highly recommend trying that out!
I hope that this is helpful!
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