Making great charts
May 30, 2021
When we are in need of generating reports or doing team collaboration, we need to have a tool that can enable us to turn data into visuals …
Google Charts
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8.4
84%
Publish to Web (50)
8.3
83%
Customizable dashboards (49)
8.0
80%
Formatting capabilities (52)
8.0
80%
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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…
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BI Standard Reporting
8.1
81%
Ad-hoc Reporting
7.9
79%
Report Output and Scheduling
7.9
79%
Data Discovery and Visualization
8.1
81%
Access Control and Security
8.2
82%
Mobile Capabilities
8.0
80%
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
8.1
81%
Product Details
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.
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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.
What is Google Charts's best feature?
Reviewers rate Report sharing and collaboration and Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) and Multi-User Support (named login) highest, with a score of 8.4.
Who uses Google Charts?
The most common users of Google Charts are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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May 30, 2021
Making great charts
- It is free.
- Cross platform, browser support.
- A lot of choices regarding charts.
- It can take a longer learning curve.
- I have to make sure I am online all the time.
- Customization can improve more.
May 19, 2021
Quick Visualizations and Charts Tool!
- Ease of use
- Free to use without cost
- Integrated with GSuite Products
- Need to have prior JavaScript knowledge
- There is No Offline Option
- Customization can be difficult
- Customization is very easy.
- Very easy to be able to share a lot of the reports and charts.
- The graphics look awesome.
- There are portions where you need to be able to code in order to make edits.
- Embedding the charts can be a bit difficult.
- I wish there was offline access and editing.
May 17, 2021
Easy to develop but not so flexible visually
- Flexibility.
- Ease of use.
- Reliability.
- Visual customization.
- Integrations with other frameworks.
- Visual adaptation for smaller screens.
- Google Charts help create trendline and stacked column charts to show case growth and new customer lift. As well as, they help visualize customer acquisition broken down by segments and sales divisions.
- Google Charts enables collaboration of analysts with marketing specialists. So, they can address issues with missing campaign information quickly and complete analysis of campaigns before deadline.
- Google Charts allow their visualizations to be added to Gmail and website for simple readability. So, they don't have to be attached separately to an email being sent to supplier or category teams.
- Custom and more complex charts are difficult to create
- When creating trends in Google Charts and moving to Excel, they get distorted.
- Geo specific visualizations included in other BI tools are missing from Google Charts.
May 14, 2021
Great software for charting and graphing
- 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.
- 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.
- Timelines
- Data tables and charts that are highly customizable
- Integration with Google Sheets
- Some companies require Microsoft applications vs Google
- No desktop application, browser only
- Interactive dashboards with real-time data
- Multiple data sources can be added
- Dynamic data loading into the charts
- Loading data source is not straight forward, can be simplified
- Rich and complex analytics is not supported
- You can easily pick up on the software it is pretty easy to use.
- I love that the software is free.
- I like that it is a collaborative software that you can work on projects with teammates together.
- If you want to create complex visuals it is a bit harder and you need to use javascript.
- I wish there was an offline version of the software so you could make edits offline.
- Some of the user interface elements could be improved.
May 03, 2021
Effective software that is free
- Cross platform usability.
- Chart variety.
- Integrations.
- Customization.
- No offline access.
- Can be slow at times.
- Google Charts is easy to use and that is one of the strengths.
- The fact that they have a free version is one of the strengths.
- It is widely used so there are lots of resources.
- Has room for improvement on making more complex charts.
- Customer service could be improved.
May 03, 2021
Google Charts is an awesome free option.
- easy
- free
- powerful
- some complexities
- customization is difficult
- learning curve
May 03, 2021
Integrates with Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets
- Easy to use.
- Does not take a lot of time.
- Free.
- Accessible offline.
- Customization.
- Can be overwhelming.
April 30, 2021
Easy to build charts and graphs for any purpose
- free
- great visualization
- customization
- some charts are complex
- finding certain settings can be difficult
- customer service
April 30, 2021
Infinitely Customisable to your Company's Needs
- 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
- Some tools are more beginner friendly
- Requires some understanding of Javascript to understand the guides
- Default charts aren't as extensive as other tools
April 30, 2021
Google Charts is a powerful and simple to use tool
- Displays data in charts
- Configure the way charts are displayed
- Connect to data in [real-time]
- Integration with other non-Gsuite platforms
April 30, 2021
Google Charts helps us make data better
- Interface
- Simple
- Price
- Customer support
- Customization
April 29, 2021
Most easy charting tool for your data
- they're free with Google suite and they have backing in terms of powerful Google apps which can be plugged in to perform multiple actions like using Google sheets to import raw data into Google Charts
- they're the most simple app to use when it comes to creating charts and visual dashboards
- ease of customization
- ease of using custom APIs from developers side to help make any types of charts and dashboards you want
- they don't have geographic charts yet like any other BI tool (MS BI, Tableau)
- customization needs knowledge of programming language and it is not done through some plugins which give you perform the customization through a UI way
April 29, 2021
Google Charts has lot of flexibility for creating data visualization and colorful impact
- Google Charts is free so a terrific tool for universities and students
- Provides new users that need charts an inventory and gallery of potential charts and types to visualize data
- The software is useful to add charts and data for websites with limited effort but with success
- Using the javascript seems intimidately too technical
- By making it free, it sort of makes the user think they are missing something
- Limited technical support, kind of have to figure it out
April 29, 2021
Charts for any data representation
- Pie charts for allocation of budget
- Representation of costs
- Donation breakouts
- Edits by multiple users
- Share ability across the platforms
- User guides / videos
April 27, 2021
Great tool for visualizing data in a pinch
- The payload for Google Charts is only 43kb, much smaller than Chart.js.
- Easy to use.
- Easy to pick up if you've used Excel.
- Customizing them visually is hard. You basically get the Google color palette.
- Not easily integrated into other frameworks.
April 27, 2021
Google Chart Review 2021
- It is available free of cost.
- You can embed the charts on your website.
- There is extensive list available from which you can use the design you want.
- Regular updates and changes in GUI makes it difficult sometimes to find the required feature.
April 27, 2021
A must!
- Color combinations.
- Display.
- Added users for easy access.
- Honestly none. I think the platform is amazing as is.
April 27, 2021
Charts made easy!
- Return on Investment
- Dependable
- Reliable
- Secure
- Interface can be better
- More themes can be added
- Difficult for amateurs
April 27, 2021
A great data visualization option
- Import of data from Google sheets
- Unique data visualization
- Easy to get started
- There are some bugs that pop up consistently
- Would be great to have more APIs to integrate new data sources
- Would be great to have more templates to work off of