Amazon QuickSight vs D3.js

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon QuickSight is good when you want to interrogate data quickly and the data is in the AWS eco-system. QuickSight is not a great option if you want pixel-perfect visualizations with a lot of functionality. Overall, it's a solid solution but needs to mature a lot if it wants to become an enterprise solution.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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D3.js is great for visualizing with medium and small size datasets. It's also great for prototyping visualizations quickly and sharing on the web so others can view it without having to install any software on their machines

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Firaz Peer

Fellow

Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon QuickSight

D3.js

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Amazon QuickSight

D3.js

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Amazon QuickSight

D3.js

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Amazon QuickSight

D3.js

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Amazon QuickSight

D3.js

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Amazon QuickSight

D3.js

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Amazon QuickSight

D3.js

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Amazon QuickSight is a really easy program to learn how to use.
Amazon QuickSight allows our team to customize the data using the various data sets, which makes the available reports incredibly powerful to our organization.
Our organization has the ability continually adjust our reports and build new reports as business needs change.
Even though our organization has different reports built for different departments, each department can still access and understand reports from across the company.

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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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It is very easy to customize using D3.js. Animations, Interactivity, and data-driven plots make it a great framework to use.
JSON and CSV, all formats are integrable and converted to have data flexibility in D3.js.
Mostly heat maps, transitions, and effects are achieved using D3.js.

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Sanyam Jain

Freelancer in RPA

Self employedInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

You can not use it as a primary reporting tool as many of the features are missing.
For complex reports for business, users need to get help from an IT person.
Business users time will waste in developing reports, it should have a version where we can promote the report from one environment to other.
Sharing report with the user who is not added in IAM is complex.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Building Materials Company, 501-1000 employees

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Has a steep initial learning curve.
It is slow when dealing with really large datasets.
Not great for making maps.

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Firaz Peer

Fellow

Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

QuickSight is best suited to augment your other BI solutions, not as a primary tool. It still very immature when you compare it to products like Tableau, Qlik, Microsoft Power BI and others. However, it is very easy to get connected to data sources and a good way to interrogate data if the data is in the AWS system or database

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Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Python libraries and Tableau do not provide much flexibility in data visualization.

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Sanyam Jain

Freelancer in RPA

Self employedInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

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Ask the community to sound off

We've only used D3.js as a tool to learn data visualization and programming.

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Firaz Peer

Fellow

Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Likelihood to Recommend