Top Data Visualization Tools
Data Visualization is about how to present your data, to the right people, at the right time, to enable them to gain insights effectively. The visualization tools are evolving rapidly as compared to the other tech stack. Charts, videos, infographics and at the cutting edge even virtual reality and augmented reality (VR & AR) presentations offer intuitive channels of communication. Here's the list of some of the best, most popular or innovative data visualization tools available today
- Tableau
The Tableau is reached in-depth across the industries. It holds a large customer base, it has 57,000+ user accounts. Due to its simplicity of use and ability to produce interactive visualizations, it is far ahead than the general-purpose BI solutions. It supports most of the major databases such as AWS, MySQL, SAP & Teradata.
2. Power BI
Power BI comes in two forms desktop and online version. It's a cloud-based business analytics tool by Microsoft. Power BI is powerful as well as a flexible tool for connecting with and analyzing a wide variety of data. It's easy to learn, supports drag and drop interface. This feature helps to perform tasks like sorting, comparing and analyzing, easily and fast. Power BI is compatible with multiple sources including Excel, SQL Server, cloud based-data repositories, it supports almost all the databases. One of the excellent choice for analysts.
3. QlikView
Qlik with their QlikView tool is the other major player in this space and of course the biggest competitor for Tableau & Power BI. The vendor has over 40,000+ customer accounts over 100 countries. In addition to its data visualization capabilities, QlikView offers powerful business intelligence, analytics, and organizational reporting capabilities. QlikView is commonly used alongside QlikSense which handles data exploration and discovery. QlikView holds strong community and there are plenty of third-party resources available online to help/learn.