Below are three common tools for data visualizations, they are free and with help of these tools you can present your data in gorgeous dashboards and reports.
Kibana
First one is the Kibana, Its an open source tool mainly for analysis and visualization designed specifically to used with Elasticsearch. You can use Kibana for
- Search
- View
- Provides interaction for the data stored in the Elasticsearch index
It also provides various features like
- Charts
- Tables
- Maps
Its advanced data analysis, visualization and the browser-based interface allows you to quickly create and share dynamic dashboards that presents Elasticsearch query changes in real time manner making large amounts of data into simple and easy to understand reports.
D3.js
D3 (Data-Driven Documents) is an open source data visualization library, It was first published in February 2011 by engineers from the New York Times. D3 is interactive and dynamic library, it is actually a Java function library, known as visualization library network project. The code of the D3 project is hosted on GitHub repository. The Java file’s suffix is usually .js, so D3 is often called D3.js.
D3’s easy to use functions greatly simplifies the difficulty of operating and analytical data. It can greatly reduce the workload, especially in data visualization. D3 has streamlined the complex steps of generating various visualization by the help few simple functions. You just need to input a few sample data which can converted into a variety of gorgeous graphics.
Its scalable vector graphics (SVG format) allowing you to render shapes, lines and fills that can be zoomed in great quality and moreover without the loss of quality.
ECharts
ECharts is a pure Java chart library that provides commonly used charts specially for commercial purposes.It is open sourced by Baidu, it entered the Apache incubator in January 2018. It can run smoothly on PCs and mobile devices and is compatible with most browsers. The bottom layer of EWCharts relies on the lightweight vector graphics library ZRender. It provides intuitive, interactive, and highly personalized data visualization charts.