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Notes on the tools people actually use to make charts. None of these pages are sponsored and none of them link out; they describe what each tool is for and where it gets in the way.
Tableau
What Tableau is good at, who it suits, where it gets in the way, what Tableau Public offers for free, and how it compares with Power BI and Datawrapper.
Power BI
What Microsoft Power BI is good at, who it suits, where it gets in the way, what is free in Power BI Desktop, and how it compares with Tableau and Datawrapper.
Datawrapper
What Datawrapper is good at, who it suits, its limits, what the free plan includes, and how it compares with Flourish and Tableau for charts that get published.
Flourish
What Flourish is good at, who it suits, where it gets in the way, how its free plan publishes publicly, and how it compares with Datawrapper and D3.js.
D3.js
What the D3.js JavaScript library is good at, who should learn it, where it slows you down, and how it compares with Flourish and Datawrapper for web charts.