Item: Google Charts
Rating: 8
Author: Daniel Blazquez

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As part of our internal market research function, we maintain a collection of dashboards to monitor competitors, industry partners, and general market trends. Some of these dashboards are dynamic and pull data from external sources such as web queries or linked Excel files. The dashboards often contain charts that illustrate the trending of the data. The main consumers of the dashboards are the executive team.

Pros and Cons

Multi line trended line charts to show market share evolution
Pie charts to illustrate revenue breakdowns
Stacked area charts to show segmentation of industries

Exporting the charts could be more straightforward
Open the API to allow developers to create charts
Create a marketplace to purchase additional charts

Other Software Used

Anaconda, JIRA Software

Likelihood to Recommend

Power users - people with advance computer knowledge in particular of HTML and general scripting - benefit the most from using Google Charts. However, regular users (such as financial analysts) might have a steeper learning curve to adopt and use Google Charts, in particular comparing off-the-shelf consumer options such as Microsoft Office (Excel) and/or Apple Numbers.

A workhorse to produce portable BI dashboards

Overall Satisfaction with Google Charts

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Charts Feature Ratings