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Tableau
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No complex installations / IT approvals needed
If you want to start using Tableau at your company, you don't need huge IT resources or start a big BI deployment. Just purchase the software, install, and you're ready to go. Maybe you don't need ANY IT help at all.
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Some simple tasks are sometimes not easy to calculate.
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Powerful
Tableau makes it easy to SEE your data and make business decisions based on it.
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Addictive
Once you start using Tableau you don't want to use any other software anymore. So if your manager is obsessed with e.g. Excel, you may have issues.
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Appealing visualizations
Hard to compare with what you have to code by hand (Shiny)
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Great support
Both Tableau's support team AND the user community are super helpful and enthusiastic about the product.
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Easy to learn
You don't have to be super techy to understand it. You can learn how to use Desktop over the course of two days.
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D3.js
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Steep learning curve
The complexity and flexibility of D3.js results in it being a time-consuming tool to learn for many users. D3 is incredibly flexible; probably more so than any other JavaScript visualization library at the time of this posting. With that flexibility comes increased complexity. If you just want to create some quick charts you will get results faster with something else.
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Large community
D3.js is a very popular tool with an active community, resulting in plenty of learning resources and fast responses to questions.
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"Selections" are elegant, but somewhat hard to grok
Selections are core to working with D3 beyond the basics. They're powerful and useful, but require new developers to get up to speed (e.g. set aside 30m to read and digest: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Selections) and if used in the context of a larger application will result in a portion of the code using different patterns than the rest, requiring a translation layer in between.
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Huge number of examples online
Most of the examples provided are by the author, but there's also a great community writing plugins and more examples.
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Doesn't require a proprietary framework
D3's emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework.
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Versatile library for manipulating data on the DOM
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Very flexible join paradigm
Can be tricky at first, but once learned, data manipulation and binding can easily generate complex visualizations for massive amounts of data.
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Great for highly interactive scenes
D3.js offers incredible levels of interactivity.
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Backwards compatible
D3.js is intended for modern browsers, so supports IE9 and above (IE8 with an additional library) as well as all the other modern browsers.
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Highcharts
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Many different charts with lots of options
Highcharts provides 20 different types of charts to choose from, and they make it simple to combine chart types.
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Commercial
Highcharts is not free for commercial projects, with a starting price of US$590 for Single Developer + Maintenance & Support
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Good documentation
Very handy with examples and explanations.
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The examples are not that great
For instance, example's JsFiddle may get stalled when loading.
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Excellent browser support
Highcharts supports all modern browsers (including IE6 and up), iOS and Android.
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Large and active community
Highcharts has a large and supportive community, resulting in a fast response from both stack overflow and the Highcharts forum.
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Lots of good examples
The site has a selection of good examples that will help you get started quickly.
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Supports multiple Y axes
Important for trend correlation, eg. comparing number of clicks to sale amounts. Not same scales / units.
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Library to support Microsoft .NET
Compatable with .NET framework 4+, can develop graphs from server side for ASP .NETand ASP .NET MVC applications.
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