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Google Charts

Score8.2 out of 10

300 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Google Charts?

Google Charts provides a way to visualize data on your website - for free. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types. The most common way to use Google Charts is with simple JavaScript that you embed in your web page.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Google Charts has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 300 ratings of Google Charts's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Formatting capabilities

    Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Javascript API

    A Javascript API is a type of API

    Category average: 8

  • Report sharing and collaboration

    Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Responsive Design for Web Access

    Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

    Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Themeable User Interface (UI)

    A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it

    Category average: 7.4

Reviews

What users are saying about Google Charts.
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A complete solution for BI and data display

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed to build a dashboard for a local university, displaying complex data in a compelling and easy to understand way.

We were asked to display different aggregated data sets, with the possibility of customizing the display based on conditions, roles, and user preferences. We also needed to display different time-scale data, sometimes in the same dashboard.

Pros

  • Display multiple datasets in a single chart
  • Chart customization
  • Unified data schema
  • Simple and complete documentation with plenty of examples

Cons

  • More charts variety
  • Easier styling of data sets/points

Return on Investment

  • The customer loved the initial version of the dashboard and renewed the offer for an additional part of the website

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Vivaldi Browser, Microsoft Edge, React

Google Charts: Visually Appealing Analytics.

Diego Reyes
Practice Director in Human Resources at Smile Doctors (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With Google Charts, we are able to easily visualize our data reports and present them in a way that everyone can understand. Our main goal is to be able to tell a story with all the numbers that we have and be able to use the visualized charts to make data-driven decisions. Google Charts has a variety of different charts that we can use, and all serve different purposes. It is easy to find a chart that will work with the KPI that we are trying to display.

Pros

  • Great UI.
  • Chart variety.
  • Ease of Use.
  • Visualization
  • Aesthetic Appeal.

Cons

  • Training videos.
  • Implementations to extract data.
  • Nothing else.

Return on Investment

  • Visually see data to make decisions.
  • Able to predict any future trends by looking at charts.
  • Ability to see past results to make better decisions.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop and Google Data Studio

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop, Google Data Studio

Usability

Infinitely Customisable to your Company's Needs

Incentivized
Alexander CooperView profile
RPA Developer in Corporate at Randstad UK (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Easily integrates with other parts of Gsuite
  • Easy access to well documented API's for integration with third party software
  • Free to use for all cases

Cons

  • Some tools are more beginner friendly
  • Requires some understanding of Javascript to understand the guides
  • Default charts aren't as extensive as other tools

Return on Investment

  • As Google Charts is free it has had a positive ROI
  • Requires a Javascript developer to fully utilise compared to a BA alone, so some extra money was spent
  • Helped improve our AGILE workflows which increased productivity

Alternatives Considered

Smartsheet

Other Software Used

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Blue Prism Intelligent RPA, Automation Anywhere

Usability

Google Charts, No False Starts!

Incentivized
Sarah BandyView profile
Executive Director in Marketing at Youth Empowerment through Arts and Humanities (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • The designs that Google Charts have available are incredibly slick.
  • Saving and sharing charts made on Google Charts is really easy - I can put together a report for our stakeholders in no time.
  • The customization piece on Google Charts is really intuitively designed.

Cons

  • I would like a couple more introductory videos or a live chat option for when you run into an issue. I think this is a Google-wide problem, not only linked to Google Charts.
  • I have run into some issues with the Dynamic Data but also admittedly could potentially dive in deeper and investigate.
  • It would be great if Google Charts made it possible to integrate Google Chat into the platform.

Return on Investment

  • Google Charts helps me to engage with my stakeholders and use our data points to show positive trends, or to shift gears and pull out from strategies that aren't working.
  • Since Google Charts is free and integrates with my GSuite, I don't see any reason why someone shouldn't give it a try.
  • I've been able to successfully visually track where and how we want to grow.

Alternatives Considered

Piktochart

Usability

Great software for charting and graphing

Incentivized
Johnny Pelter
Client Relations Manager in Customer Service at GayTravel (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Google Charts is easy to use and intuitive.
  • Offer a large amount of charts and graphs compared to other options.
  • They have a free option for the product.

Cons

  • Customer support could be improved.
  • Interface can be a bit slow at times.
  • Depending on what you want to do, you may need to know how to code.

Return on Investment

  • Has helped us retain more clients and get new ones for there is a positive ROI for using this tool.
  • This tool saves us a lot of time that we would spend doing manually tasks that we can now put towards revenue generating tasks.

Usability