A Consumers Guide to Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools

You've got data. How do you transform it into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action? This 30-page independent Idealware report provides an overview of the types of graphic formats that might work for you, provides some examples and case studies, and then compares eight low-cost tools that can help you create them.  The tools reviewed include Microsoft Excel, SmartDraw, DeltaChart, Google Docs, ManyEyes, Swivel, Google Maps, and Microsoft MapPoint.