Better design to displaying a lot of data within tables

1. What some alternative ways to present tabular data instead of the standard table in the UI?

What some alternative ways to present tabular data instead of the standard table in the UI?

In nutshell, it follows the principle of 'Less is more' by removing colors, removing grid lines, aligning items based their types (Numbers or String) etc. Also another method would be to use graphical elements like Pie Charts, graph bars etc.