Best Web-based Data Visualization tools
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The document compares and summarizes several popular web-based data visualization tools, including Datawrapper, CartoDB, Plotly, Kibana, Dc.js + Crossfilter, ParallelCoordinates.js, and Timeline.js. It outlines six dimensions for comparison: target market, pricing, technical architecture and scalability, customizability, types of visualizations, and key functionality. For each tool, it provides a brief overview of its target market, pricing structure, technical architecture, customizability, and visualization functionality.
Best Web-based Data Visualization tools
- 1. The Best Web-Based Data Visualisation Tools As of March 2016 John Griffin
- 2. Dimensions for comparison 1. Target Market 2. Pricing 3. Technical Architecture & Scalability 4. Customisability 5. Type of visualisations 6. Key Functionality
- 3. 1/6: Target Market ✴ Non-expert Business Users ✴ Analysts / Statisticians ✴ Journalists ✴ Designers ✴ Developers ✴ Industry specific (e.g. finance / marketing)
- 4. 2/6: Pricing ✴ One-off ✴ Per visualisation / dataset / dashboard ✴ Per seat / active user ✴ Per time used (typically month / year) ✴ Per volume of data ✴ Free
- 5. 3/6: Technical Architecture ✴ Client / Server ✴ Desktop only ✴ Browser only
- 6. 4/6: Customisability ✴ Black Box ✴ Open API ✴ Open Source
- 7. 5/6: Type of Visualisation ✴ Time Series ✴ Ranking ✴ Part-to-whole ✴ Deviation ✴ Frequency Distribution ✴ Correlation ✴ Nominal Comparison ✴ Geographic / Geospatial ✴ Relationship (network)
- 8. 6/6: Key Functionality ✴ Static / interactive ✴ Single chart / dashboards ✴ Embedding ✴ Collaboration / sharing ✴ Exploration / presentation / storytelling ✴ Browser / device support
- 9. Tools ✴ Datawrapper ✴ CartoDB ✴ Plotly ✴ Kibana ✴ Dc.js + crossfilter ✴ ParallelCoordinates.js ✴ Timeline.js
- 10. Datawrapper
- 11. Datawrapper
- 12. Datawrapper Target Market : Journalists, bloggers… Pricing: Free to start, €12/m to embed Tech Architecture: All data and rendering in-browser Customisability: Very good, open source. Visualisation Functionality: Single charts only. All common charts and a few less common ones.
- 13. CartoDB
- 14. CartoDB
- 15. CartoDB Target Market: Analysts, Data publishers, journalists Pricing: Free for public, $149/m private, $825/m enterprise starting. Tech Architecture: Client/Server, very scalable. Cloud or on-premises. Customisability: Very good, open source & API. Visualisation Functionality: All sorts of interactive maps — points, lines, polygons. Many base maps available and advanced features such as custom tiles.
- 16. Plotly
- 17. Plotly
- 18. Plotly Target Market: Analysts, Data scientists, Developers Pricing: Free for public, $19/m for private, $9950/yr for 5 users on-site. Tech Architecture: All data and rendering in-browser Customisability: Very good, open source & API. Visualisation Functionality : Single charts only. All common charts and a quite a few less common ones.
- 20. Dc.js + Crossfilter Target Market: Javascript developers Pricing: Free! Tech Architecture: All data and rendering in-browser Customisability: Very good, open source. Visualisation Functionality : Interactive dashboards, where multiple charts are connected. Most common charts available, not maps.
- 21. Kibana
- 23. Timeline.js