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Figure 13.9
Shakespeare corpus versus word count in BIME
Other Data Visualization Options
There are a lot of ways you can visualize your BigQuery data; you have
just seen two commercial solutions. If you're cost-sensitive, or just want
to make a quick graph or two, Tableau and BIME might not be the most
cost-effective option. (Although both do have free trials to let you decide
if they're right for you.) There is an up-to-date list of popular third-party
visualization tools at
https://developers.google.com/bigquery/
third-party-tools
, which includes both Tableau and BIME but also
other options such as Metric Insights and QlikView.
If you don't want to spend money on your visualizations, you can also
build nice graphs via your favorite spreadsheet software. Microsoft Excel
has advanced charting features, and we've shown two different ways to use
it with BigQuery (via the BigQuery Excel Connector, described in Chapter
12, or via the ODBC driver, described earlier in this chapter). Google Docs'
graphing capabilities are more limited, but it has the advantage of being
free, and it works from any web browser.
