It will also depend on your cleaning and consolidation requirements and your approach to getting insights from data. While Excel spreadsheets are the most basic structuring tool for data wrangling, ...

Called Trifacta Wrangler, the software aims to put self-service data wrangling within reach for any professional who works with data in Excel or visual analysis tools such as Tableau.

The free version handles files up to 100 MB in text, Excel and JSON formats.