Looker Studio on A Data Scientist's Journey

Using Looker Studio to Bring Data Visualization to Game Night

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll start this post with a confession. It has been four months since I built the dashboard for The Impostors League project. Spoiler alert: I haven’t opened Looker Studio since then. My memory is fuzzy, but hey—that makes this post more fun to write. Think of it as a reflection, with extra sprinkles of chaos.

What is Looker Studio?

Looker Studio is Google’s free, web-based data viz tool. Think of it as the chill, younger sibling of Power BI or Tableau… the one that doesn’t ask you to install anything or set up a whole environment.

The Impostors League: A Data-Powered Game Night Project

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

🎮 How It All Started

It began like many fun things do — with friends, games, and a bit of competitive energy. In our dorm, we were deep into football games, especially 2024-modded Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 (PES 17) matches, playing in a mini-league we called The Impostors League. (We refer to ourselves as The Impostors after another one of our favorite games, Among Us.) The banter was there, the competition was present, and then someone said: “Wouldn’t it be cool if we started like a real league?”