4.7
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Customers appreciate Columns for its easy-to-use interface, beautiful and functional charts, and responsive support. Some users mentioned the need for faster visualization and more features, while others found limitations in data manipulation and mapping functionality. With an overall rating of 4.7 and a 60-day money-back guarantee, Columns is a solid buy for those in need of a data visualization tool.
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Verified purchaser
Excellent Founder
Excellent founder who put his career's expertise in Data Science towards making graphs accessible for us. As long as you have the data in column format, you can upload it and get amazing, beautiful results. They need to keep rolling out more features for integrating data Finding so we can do this even easier, or have an accessible guide with links to trustworthy top data sources, but other than getting the data, if you already have it, this is your tool for visualization!
ShawnCao
Oct 22, 2024Appreciate your review! Let’s keep making it better and better.
Verified purchaser
Awesome for WordPress-Sites!
I haven't written a review for quite some time, but Columns.ai is really a great tool, and I wanted to let the world know! :D
I was searching for a nice possibility to embed charts into my WordPress site without overloading it with one more Plugin... This does the job really well—with beautiful designs, and many adjustment possibilities..! Everything works just how you would like it to work.
Recommended!
ShawnCao
Jul 17, 2024Wow, this is amazing review. I usually do a lot of support for our lovely users, but I even didn't support you at all, appreciate your write up this!!
Verified purchaser
Great tool for creating and sharing graphics
I'm really enjoying the tool. Very intuitive, very beautiful graphics. Additionally, it has many configuration options.
I needed to speak to the team and was helped quickly too.
A great purchase.
ShawnCao
Jul 7, 2024Thank you for the positive feedback, glad it's useful to you!
Verified purchaser
Learning Curve but Huge Potential
At first when I went into the tool I thought is that it. However, I got on a call with them and went through the tool. To take in large datasets at one go turn it around and summarise is pretty good.
What needs improvement:
- It does not automatically tell the story colour wise this could be improved I had to change colours to make real distinctions to the viewers e.g. gender. Whilst the palette chosen by the AI was aesthetic it did not contrast to tell the story it should not need this level of intervention.
- It's not retaining my data I need to upload each time, they are trying to resolve
- Once you learn the customisation there is a lot you can do
- The summary could be even more insightful but I think the AI language needs to be trained
ShawnCao
Jun 21, 2024Thanks for the feedback, Chantelle, those suggestions are good! Sorry for data saving bug you hit, it should be solved now. Let’s continue exploring it!
Verified purchaser
Great support but not enough mapping functionality
Maps are not able to be more granular than county level - no cities or lat/long geocoordinates. If you input "City" and "State" (2 separate data fields), it'll map it to the County - so it's kinda smart but without letting you know it does that. But you cannot pass lat/long and you cannot pass a single "City, State" field.
Once your map is published, the map is not zoomable to drill down and view more closely.
I chatted with support multiple times. They were excellent - eager to help and understanding of my challenges getting started.
However, as a mapping tool, it's not recommended at this time.
Positive was that the UI is responsive, the maximum rows of data allowed is huge, and support is detailed.
ShawnCao
May 9, 2024Thanks for writing up the review, glad that I can support you.
As you discovered, Columns is not designed for a map focus tool, it’s a lightweight BI for simple data analytics and visualization, and map is one of its visual type. Except the professional mapping functions like zooming, I believe Columns map for both US and World are working well for bunch of simple scenarios, thanks again!