Don’t let money become the barrier that stops you from learning whatever you are passionate about. This article introduces some free visualization tools to create dashboards, e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Google Data Studio … Additionally, there are many free resources and tutorials that help you to master these tools.

Free Visualization Tools

1. Tableau

In case you don’t know, Tableau is free to use for one year as long as you have the access to the school email. Simply register using your school email. This article “How to Download and Learn Tableau for Free” provides a more comprehensive guide to unlock a $70+ /month software for free. Addition to Tableau Desktop you are able to use Tableau Data Prep software for free.

2. Power BI

For Windows users out there, Power BI desktop tool is definitely a very good choice to start your data visualization journey. Its user interface layout pretty much follows the conventions of other Microsoft softwares, which makes it easy to use.

However, for Mac users it will be a struggle. Currently, Microsoft doesn’t provide Power BI native apps on macOS. One of the solutions is to run Power BI on a virtual machine which simulates Windows operating system on your Apple devices. Here are some tutorials that may help:

Run PowerBI On A Mac Like A Dev

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