Data Presentation and Visualization Tools

Many of the tools mentioned on this page have options to format and present data within your existing software, which is great news! Check out some of these tools and methods to help visualize and present your data.

Data Visualization Tools

Tool

Price

Multilingual Support

Ease of Use*

Useful Functions*

Utilization aides

Microsoft Excel

Part of Microsoft office (free through most academic institutions)

Yes

Easy 

Syncs with Microsoft Office products.

Data Visualization functions of Excel

Power BI

Microsoft service. Free (limited) version available. Typically syncs with Excel.

Yes

Medium

Easy Sync to all Microsoft products and devices. Good for teams working off Outlook

Using Microsoft Power BI

Tableau

Free for students. 70$ a month typical license. Syncs with Salesforce. 

Yes

Medium

Extremely comprehensive. Easy sync to sales forces and other survey programs. A fully free version called Tableau Public exists but all projects made become public domain (can be useful for sharing results with large community).

How to use tableau outside tutorial

Datawrapper

Free with paid options

Yes

Easy

Accepts data from a large number of sources. Can easily extract data from websites and PDFs.

Data Wrapper Academy

Google Sheets

Free with a Gmail account

Yes

Easy

Easy sync for all Google Office products. Good for teams working off Gmail.

How to use Google Sheets tutorial

Infogram

Free

Yes

Easy

Allows for the creation of a wide variety of visually impressive infograms. Easy  interface for beginners.

Infogram Tutorial

Canva

Free

No

Medium

Provides a wide variety of visualization templates but harder to upload data.

How to create Graphs and Charts in Canva

Concept Maps

N/a

N/a

N/a

Concepts maps are a creative way of visualizing data without the need for software.

Concept Maps

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