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Top 5 Data Visualization Tools Of 2022
By TechDogs Editorial Team

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Overview
What if we gave you a map that highlighted the density with shades of red, the darker the shade, the higher percentage of Potterheads you’d find there. Then, you’d be able to list the top 5 countries within seconds, right? That’s the power of visualization.
Any data, any piece of information becomes easy to comprehend and even makes more sense when represented visually and that’s what a Data Visualization Tool does for your business – pretty much like the Compstat board that Terry had prepared to identify the red areas (where no work gets done!) in the Brooklyn 99 precinct.
A Data Visualization Tool becomes your Terry and to find one that’s perfect for your team, we’ve used expert reviews to shortlist the top 5 you can choose from. Read on to find out what they are!
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Are you one of those people who dwell upon the possibilities of sci-fi movies like Minority Report and Back to the Future? While not all but some sci-fi movies are almost too close to reality. For example, in Minority Report, the authorities use data analysis, specifically predictive analytics, to catch possible offenders even before a crime is committed in the film. They are essentially pulling data from different sources to identify behavior patterns and figure out the crime that's about to take place soon. Even you can harness that kind of power (well, almost) to visualize and analyze data through a Data Visualization Tool.
Data Visualization Tool is a powerful software application that lets you visually display your data with charts, graphs and maps. So, trends, anomalies and patterns in data can be seen and understood using these tools. Data Visualization Tools and technologies are critical in the Big Data environment to analyze enormous volumes of data and make data-driven decisions. The capabilities of each tool differ but at their most basic level, they all allow you to input a dataset and graphically alter it.
Here are our top 5 picks for the best Data Visualization Tools of 2021 in no particular order.
Top 5 Data Visualization Tools Of 2022
Tableau |
Microsoft Power BI![]() |
TIBCO Spotfire![]() |
Qlik Sense![]() |
Looker![]() |
Tool 1: Tableau
Tableau was founded by Christian Chabot (CEO) and Chris Stolte (CTO) in 2003. The company was appreciated as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for nine consecutive years between 2012 and 2021. Can you even imagine! Best of them all, Tableau is the only vendor recognized in the Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice distinction. Do you know what that means? It means they are appreciated not just by their critics but by their peers and customers too. Their client list includes some influential names, including LinkedIn, RedHat, Honeywell, WWF, Nissan, Princeton University and more.
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Offering the best in analytics, Tableau's Data Visualization Tool is the home to killer interactive visualized data and is used by single entrepreneurs and larger organizations. Tableau lets users visualize and explore all of their data without writing a single line of code. People can dive deeper, do pivot analysis and change chart types without starting over or breaking their flow.
Tableau encourages creativity and confidence in decision-making, so people can focus on asking questions about their data, not learning software. In 2019, Salesforce acquired Tableau, which ensured that Tableau is natively embedded in Salesforce CRM to empower users with AI-driven insights.
Tool 2: Microsoft Power BI
The one that needs no introduction, Microsoft Corporation, was founded by Paul Gardner Allen and William Henry Gates III in 1975. Ranking 3rd in the Forbes list of the world's most valuable brands, Microsoft develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions. The company has been named a Leader in Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms by Gartner in 2021, the same as it did in 2020. That's a big deal!
Speaking of which, Microsoft Power BI is a big deal when it comes to Data Visualization and can convert data to insights in minutes. This tool has many Data Visualization capabilities, including natural language visualization and customizing various visualization. Additionally, it connects to and pulls data from cloud-based and on-premise sources including IBM, Google Analytics, Oracle, Excel, JSON and other data sources.
As a robust visualization tool, it comes with its own Business Intelligence features, including BI Cloud to leverage the power of the cloud and meet regulatory compliance, Power Query that ingests, transforms and integrates your data to BI Platform, Microsoft AI that takes advantage of the AI to elevate users to get insights from structured data and unstructured data and real-time data streaming to supports real-time analytics.
Tool 3: TIBCO Spotfire
Named as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management (MDM) solutions for the 5th time, TIBCO Software Inc. is a driving force in solving the world's most complex data challenges. Taking it up a notch, the company won the 2020 DEVIES Award for the Best Innovation in Data Development and Architecture and was named Company to Watch by TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise 2010 Editors' Choice Awards. Pretty cool, isn't it?
TIBCO Spotfire is one of the most competitive Data Visualization Tools on the market, enabling everyone to explore and visualize information through immersive dashboards and advanced analytics. Spotfire delivers capabilities at scale, including predictive analytics, geolocation analytics and streaming analytics. With the Spotfire platform, you can get a seamless, single-pane-of-glass experience for visual analytics, data discovery and point-and-click insights.
You get to immerse yourself in both historical and real-time data interactively. Additionally, you can drill down or across multi-layer, disparate data sources with fully brush-linked, responsive visualizations – that is, connecting two or more views of data, such that a change to one representation affects the representation in the other.
Tool 4: Qlik Sense
A private Software as a Services company, Qlik provides an end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics cloud platform to close the gaps between data, insights and action. The company marks its presence in over 100 countries and boasts over 50,000 customers around the world. What's more? Gartner has named Qlik as a Leader in Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI for the 11th year in a row!
Qlik Sense is a complete Data Visualization Tool that merges brawn, brains and beauty as it collects data from various platforms and syncs together for better viewing. Combining all the data helps in better analysis and transforming the entire business to derive profitable results. It can also ingest data from multiple sources, including external data from cloud services - to be analyzed together, thanks to its flexible Connect and API (Application Programming Interface) functions.
One of its core strengths is its industry-leading Artificial Intelligence capabilities and interactivity that boosts any non-technical user's ability to ask questions without relying on intervention from other experienced users. You can also enjoy a vibrant community that offers numerous third-party tools accessible online to assist new users.
Tool 5: Looker
Looker Data Sciences, Inc. is a US-based computer software company specializing in data exploration and discovery business intelligence platforms. The company was acquired by Google in 2019 for $2.6 Billion and is now offered integrated with Google Cloud Platform. Looker was recognized as a Challenger in the Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for the second year in a row and has won the award for Google Cloud Partner twice as well. Safe to say, you need to keep a lookout for Looker, get it?
Looker is a cloud-based Data Visualization Tool that helps businesses capture and analyze data from multiple sources and make data-driven decisions. It specializes in providing an interactive analytical system for better data visualization, which simplifies complex analysis.
It utilizes Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery and more than 50 SQL (Structured Query Language) to organize unstructured data and use popular data modeling language for impactful visualizations. Looker's data visualizations and dashboards enable you to drill down into your data through customizable charts, graphs and reports while maintaining a safe, bird's-eye view of operations.
Which One’s Right For You?
This is where we leave you. We’ve not only shared our recommendations but also provided honest feedback on each of these data discovery and visualization tools. Now, the ball’s in your court. You’ve got to pick the tool that would not only match your needs but is also easy to work with, for your team.
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