Stone, who also worked with the Stanford Visualization Group (which is now at the University of Washington), will help Tableau determine best practices for using color within data visualization.

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Where possible, we register for and use every program in our best data visualization tools guide. We use the software, recreating real-world use cases to assess ease of use and functionality.

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Tableau . Tableau is often considered the gold-standard of data visualization tools and as such it enjoys wide deployment with a reported 57,000 active user accounts. Much of its appeal stems from ...

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Tableau: Best for advanced data visualization. Image: Tableau. Tableau, a product of Salesforce, is one of the most popular and most often used data visualization application suites on the market.

The data visualization tool supports more than 120 data source connectors. This includes sources such as Salesforce, Marketo, Github, Facebook, Google Analytics, Excel, SQL Server and others.