Learn how to chart and track Google Trends in Data Studio using Python
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Learn how to chart and track Google Trends in Data Studio using Python
Google Trends is a free and incredibly useful tool that provides search interests, popular keywords and hot topics in a lot of languages for different platforms such as web search, Youtube or Google Shopping. Regardless of the marketing channel, it can be a very helpful tool to get valuable insights and make meaningful choices for the next steps of your project.
Basically, it gives the data on the relative popularity of a keyword from 2004 to the present, which is really cool! (Relative popularity means the ratio of your search term interest to the interests of all keywords searched on Google.)
Everything is great so far, but analyzing Google Trends data at scale is mostly not practical. Many of us don't use it much because it seems like a tedious job to search for keywords on the website and get data points one by one. So how can we use Google Trends in a more effective way?
In this article, my aim is to show you the pytrends library in Python and what benefits you can get from it in your data analysis. I will also explain the connection between Google Spreadsheets and Jupyter Notebook in order to import data into Google Data Studio to share it with others easily. For example, while analyzing Search Console data on Data Studio dashboard, wouldn't it be nice to have Google Trends data on the same page? If your answer is yes, let's dig in!
3 topics I will cover in this article:
Coding with Pytrends library and exploring its featuresConnecting Jupyter Notebook to Google Spreadsheets with gspread libraryImporting data into Google Data Studio
System requirements to use the Pytrends Library
Python 2.7+ and Python 3.3+ Requires Requests, lxml, Pa