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: What tool can I use to create professional and nice charts and tables without any design skill? As I said in the title, I need to find a tool which allows people who don't use any "design

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As I said in the title, I need to find a tool which allows people who don't use any "design software" to create some simple data graphics like bar charts and pie charts that are easy to modify. It can be online or not, free or not, for web or print to be included in PDF documents.

I started to take a look to Google Charts, what do you think about it ?

Thank you very much. It's my first question on this website, I hope i did it well.

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@Samaraweera207

Designed by Travis Kochel, FF Chartwell is a fantastic typeface for creating simple graphs. Driven by the frustration of creating graphs within design applications and inspired by typefaces such as FF Beowolf and ­­FF PicLig, Travis saw an opportunity to take advantage of OpenType technology to simplify the process.

Using OpenType features, simple strings of numbers are automatically transformed into charts. The visualized data remains editable, allowing for hassle-free updates and styling.

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@Vandalay110

charte.ca - free interactive charts created online in seconds. No designer skills required. And yes, it supports bar and pie charts (there are more than 20 chart types supported). Some features:


animations: move the mouse or tap to highlight data items and show callouts
drill-downs: let your readers navigate to more detailed charts and back
our charts are standalone SVG files, embed them in your HTML with ease
it's quick: create a chart, paste data, change appearance, publish in the cloud or export to a file
integration: use our API to keep your charts up-to-date


Sample editor screenshot:



Disclaimer: I am affiliated with charte.ca

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@Radia289

LiveGap Charts is good One try it.
it's free and online, no registration needed,no download.Simple with live preview

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@Harper654

As you are saying that excel is not an option, I would go with Google charts. There are other alternatives, but GC seems to me the most flexible:


It can be stored online in Google Docs, no risk of loosing it when a
computer crashes
You use Fusion tables that are incredibly flexible
It can become formats for web or print
It can be shared and worked on by multiple people, with revision control
There are a massive amounts of alternatives and ready-made databases/templates, such as geographic maps (maps are incredibly difficult to maintain in general. Borders etc)
It is pretty easy to understand
It is highly customisable, but works fine if one is not interested in the fiddly bits of changing colours etc.
You can generate multiple charts and maps easily from the same data.


They actually look good with the least amount of effort. And, not the least; they are consistent.



Edit:

As per your comment I will elaborate a little. When I say "databases" I mean predefined information. If you make a bar chart, Google Charts will take care of choosing colours that works and are not too close in hue as in creating confusion.

As for maps, this is a headache for cartographers and GIS people the world over: borders change, country names changes. To keep reasonably up to date on that is a nightmare. Google charts will also give you countries "weighted" (by this i mean that you apply a number to a country, and GC will adjust colours so as to show "amount" of something.

The gauges, though not very stylish, are all sorted too; the graphics, colours and indication is nothing you have to think about if you do not want to.

All charts are usable out of the box, but you can always change whatever aspect you want should you be so inclined.

Make sure you explore the information in the sidebar, as more charts are "hiding" there. Google charts.

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