# Using Google Analytics with a PressbooksEDU Network

**URL:** <https://pressbooks.community/t/using-google-analytics-with-a-pressbooksedu-network/1099>\
**Category:** Analytics & Reporting\
**Created:** [September 10, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/using-google-analytics-with-a-pressbooksedu-network/1099 "2019-09-10T19:50:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![klaurits](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/klaurits/32/728_2.png) [@klaurits](https://pressbooks.community/u/klaurits)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/using-google-analytics-with-a-pressbooksedu-network/1099/1 "2019-09-10T19:50:23Z")

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During the Pressbooks demo Lillian volunteered to share how she’s using Google Analytics & Data Studio to map downloads. More please!

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**Author:** ![lhogendoorn](https://pressbooks.community/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@lhogendoorn](https://pressbooks.community/u/lhogendoorn)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/using-google-analytics-with-a-pressbooksedu-network/1099/2 "2019-09-10T20:05:06Z")

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Hey Karen! Here’s a map we made of downloads from our Open Library and Pressbooks.

> **[Open Library Download Map](https://datastudio.google.com/embed/reporting/1zhRxHjB0MB1gJcL2o79qiNNruRN7jIx5/page/pvHw)**
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> Google Data Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.

Steel helped us understand that book downloads are considered events (In “Behaviour” in the sidebar -\> Events) We also look at events by Page Path Level 1 to see what downloads are happening for which books, and sometimes run reports (on request) and send them to authors. Our front-end-developer is working on ways to call the Google Analytics API and automatically include book downloads on our library records, I will keep you all posted!

Also, I’m happy to chat with anyone via Zoom and show folks around. I’ve been learning Data Studio and Analytics for this specific project and I’m happy to show the way the sausage is made, so to speak.