Visualization tools can be divided into three broad categories:
Graphical tools:
• MS Excel : Microsoft Excel is the standard offering in the Microsoft Office bundle. It is used mostly by analysts for all lightweight analysis, as well as a visualization tool.
• D3.js : A JavaScript library to create graphs in HTML and related web technologies
• FusionCharts : A JavaScript library for graphs on the Web
• Google Charts : Interactive charts for web and mobile devices
Dashboard tools:
• Tableau : A US-based software company with a flagship product that helps create dashboards on raw data
• Qlikview : A dashboard software prodyct by the US-based company Qlik
• Spotfire : Dashboarding software by TIBCO
• OBIEE : By Oracle
• Business Objects : By SAP
Infographic tools:
• Infogram
• plotly
• Picktochart
