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Which is the best data visualization software- Tableau vs. Microsoft PowerBI?    As soon as you kick start your day, you are hooked to the digital world- booking Uber for office, ordering Pizza online, giving likes on social media, reading books on Kindle, subscribing to Netflix series, and many more. All these activities leave a trail of data which, when organized together, tells a lot about your taste and preferences. With pictorial graphs and charts, this data could decode your personality, behavior, and thought process to a great extent.  Something similar a data visualization tool does for business enterprises accumulating critical data scattered across flat files, web feeds, databases, cloud storage services & online/offline applications and presents them in pictorial format to make it more meaningful.    (Image Source: infomazeelite)  The goal of data visualization is not simply presenting the business data in pictorial format but also to obtain key information for decision making. The two of the most popular and best data visualization software are Tableau and Microsoft Power BI.  Tableau vs. Microsoft BI    Latest updates on Microsoft data visualization tool- Sand Dance   Microsoft announced to make Sand-dance an open-source visualization tool.  SandDance is also available as an extension to Visual Studio Code and Azure Data Studio.  SandDance intuitive interface provides 2D and 3D visualizations, density plots, scatter plots, bar charts, stacked charts, as well as filtering and faceting of the data.   Wrapping Up: Both the tools are powerful in converting data into actionable business information. It would be unfair to conclude any one tool better over here though there are minor differences in respect to features that set them apart. For example, Tableau provides more flexibility in terms of deployment than Microsoft Power BI, whereas Microsoft Power BI is more cost-effective than Tableau.  Evaluate your needs first, and try to find what particular BI solution works for the enterprise and what it can offer to solve its problems.  No doubt, both have the same objective. Tableau has a slightly thin edge over Microsoft Power BI when data visualization is the only priority.