The market for free data visualization applications is getting increasingly crowded, but many of these options are either cloud-based or, in the case of Tableau Public, desktop that nevertheless requires even your private data to be uploaded to their servers. That’s great if you’re working on a project you want to share with the world (or wouldn’t mind too much if the world stumbled upon it one day); but a non-starter for sensitive enterprise data.

The free Qlik Sense Desktop application (64-bit Windows only) is one exception, allowing you to create interactive data visualizations from data you keep on your own system. That’s useful if you want to get insights from your own data, but less so if you want to share your work with others in your company.

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