Big Data Visualization — MS Excel vs Power BI vs Tableau

Vipin Dhonkaria
2 min readJan 12, 2021

(How Powerful these BI Tools are for data analysis and visualization?)

Have you ever wondered how big organizations i.e. Coca-Cola, Loreal, Wells Fargo analyze tons of data? Have you ever realized how managers visualize Sales Growth, Market Potential, and Revenue across the Globe? Have you ever thought of how Coca-Cola maintains the accurate sales count of bottles in every region?

Dynamic Sales Dashboard

Why Data Visualization?

Data Visualization and analysis is highly important in understanding the current situation of the organization and is a key step to determine future business decisions.

Benefits of Data Visualization

Dashboard Design Tips

While designing a dynamic and interactive dashboard with any of the tools i.e. MS Excel/Tableau/Power BI, the following points must be kept in mind.

Important Points for Dynamic Dashboard Design

Excel vs Tableau vs Power BI

Below is the comparison between Business Intelligence Tools based on a few key differentiators

Comparison between BI Tools

Conclusion

It is always the best practice to design a dynamic dashboard to visualize and analyze the key performance indicators (KPIs) of an organization. All the BI tools have different capabilities in designing a dashboard. With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence, these tools have become smart enough to sketch charts based on customer thoughts using Natural Language Processing and other Machine Learning techniques.

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