The best free data visualization tools

Welcome back! Visualizing your data is one of the most important things you can do to gain valuable insight, luckily, there are a lot of ways to visualize your data with free tools! Here’s a list of some of my favorite tools available for free for data visualizations!

Google Data Studio

I believe the best free option for data visualizations right now is Google Data Studio, this is Google’s free offering of data visualizations. First off, unlike most of the other options on this list, Google Data Studio doesn’t require any downloads, everything is within your browser. Now, this can be a disadvantage for some, mostly if you’re handling classified company data, but if you’re developing reports for any other case (unclassified data), then this is a very useful option.

There are alot of built in functions within this tool, you can develop charts, geo maps, graphs, data tables, pivot tables and so much more. Because this is from Google, you will be able to access your data from Google Sheets as well, this can be a huge advantage for some who house their data within Google Sheets, but that’s not the only place you can get your data from. You have your typical Excel sheets and CSV’s that you can bring in, but you can also connect to different databases as well, these are the databases Google Data Studio currently supports…