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With Tableau, users can upload data from spreadsheets, cloud-based data management software, and online databases and merge them to identify trends, filter databases, and forecast outcomes. Users also can drag and drop information to transform data and instantly create charts and visualizations.

Datawrapper allows users to produce interactive charts, maps, and tables that can be embedded onto their websites. Datawrapper templates also customizable, which allows users to generate visualizations that match their news outlet’s branding style.

With RAWGraphs, users can import data from .csv, .tsv, Excel, and Google Spreadsheet files and build custom graphs and charts that best illustrate the findings. Users can also map the variables within the data set to transform the visualizations and extrapolate further findings from the data.

Google’s free Charts software creates customizable charts, maps, and diagrams from imported datasets.

Microsoft’s Power BI software provides business intelligence and data analytics tools to clean and transform data, merge data from different sources, and perform grouping, clustering, and forecasting to find patterns in the data.