How To Build Your Data Visualisation Toolkit ?

There are many different tools you can use for data visualisation.

• Spreadsheet tools: You can use visualisation tools in your spreadsheet to create simple visualisations such as line and bar charts.

• Tableau/Visualisation Software: You can use more advanced tools such as Tableau that allow you to integrate data into dashboard-style visualisations.

• RStudio: If you are working with the programming language R you can use the visualisation tools in RStudio

Your choice of visualisation will be driven by a variety of drivers including the size of your data, the process you used for analysing your data (spreadsheet, or databases/queries, or programming languages).

Spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets)

Spreadsheets are great for creating simple visualisations like bar graphs and pie charts, and even provide some advanced visualisations like maps, and waterfall and funnel diagrams.

Visualisation Software (TABLEAU)

• lets you pull data from nearly any system and turn it into compelling visuals or actionable insights.

• The platform offers built-in visual best practices, which makes analysing and sharing data fast, easy, and useful.

• It works well with a wide variety of data and includes an interactive dashboard that lets you and your stakeholders click to explore the data interactively.

• For inspirations check out this page: Viz Of The Day.

Programming Language (R with RStudio)

• It is an integrated developer environment (IDE).

• As with Tableau, you can create dashboard-style data visualisations using RStudio.

The best data analysts use lots of different tools and methods to visualise and share their data.