Every example of a time-series graph I've seen for Google Data Studio has a metric plotted per day. Is there any way to configure the granularity of the time axis (hour, month, etc)?
I want to show the count of events per hour throughout one day. My columns are in bigquery as types datetime:TIMESTAMP and count:INTEGER
This is old, but its high in search results, and I found the correct answer here: https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Data-Studio/Is-it-possible-to-aggregate-by-hour/td-p/1104815
Click the pencil next to the datasource, on your timestamp, click on the type column, and change "Date(YYYYMMDD" to another format, such as DATE HOUR("YYYYMMDDHH") to get hourly aggregation on the graphs.
Edit: Based on new updates to Data Studio, @Brian's answer above is the correct one.
You can create a calculated field with the TODATE funciton. Example formula can be TODATE(source_field, 'SECONDS', '%Y%m%d%H'). Then this field should be marked as Date(YYYYMMDDHH) in the field editing screen.
There is a way to do this. If the data is broken up hour by hour, make the hour column(s) the Time Dimension. If all of the hour data isn't in a single column, you may want to reformat your data (manually or using a data prep source, your choice). Or you can go into the time setting of the field and change it into hours.
Now, there seems to be a straightforward way:
Type to Date Hour