HeadPhoneCharts

Hi everyone, I’m Pallav from Charts.com. We’ve made this free tool to help business users and analysts alike, who need to “analyze” their data in spreadsheets, and not just “visualize” as charts. And, further to share the analysis with others (without exposing underlying spreadsheet); or consume and act on data themselves. What this tools enables is: - Quick visual exploration of data (spreadsheets), in-browser without installing anything - Enabling business operations on data (automatic/intelligent date-time grouping, segments, calculated/conditional fields) typically required during analysis, without needing deep expertise in spreadsheets. - Less “form-driven”, more “visual-driven” exploration (lesser cognitive load, and more lazy exploration). Be it drill-downs from chart point to grid to see filtered underlying data, perform sum/avg on specific or multiple points on chart through selection, see co-relation between between different measures on chart through interactions etc. (Though some items right now, like filters, are still form-driven and we’re exploring what can be done better!) - Easier self-consumption of data without having to open multiple spreadsheets. Viewing live data from different spreadsheets in a consolidated place (single dashboard), without having to open all of them. And automatic refresh of data. - Collaboration with others by sharing charts, dashboards (along with narratives) with others else in team (chart/story with narrative), without the need to share underlying spreadsheets. We’ll building towards speed and efficiency of getting insights from spreadsheet data, very quickly and easily. Would love to get your feedback.

Ah and forgot to ask: do you have more data source integrations planned? If so, which ones and what's the timeline?

As for many similar products the only question was: is it better than MS Office solutions? Based on the sample dashboard I can say that in one important thing it is better than both Excel and PowerPoint: when you tap on the data point on the chart, the tool shows you all information about this element. It is very useful for people who work with a huge amount of data. So, because of this feature, I can give an upvote Maybe I didn't use enough the tool, but I didn't find any other important features. It is very limited in comparison with excel in data analyzing and with PowerPoint in data visualization. And I also couldn't upload my personal file to this tool :(