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Visual Analysis for Everyone: Understanding Data Exploration and Visualization
sponsored by Tableau Software
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Posted:
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28 Feb 2008
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Published:
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01 Jan 2007
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Format:
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PDF
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Length:
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27
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Type:
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White Paper
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Language:
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English
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ABSTRACT:
Although visual interfaces and databases are two of the success stories of the computer revolution, their synergy to date has been modest, probably because visual interfaces have focused on human capabilities while databases have focused on efficient query processing. Unlocking this synergy will shift us from data workers to data thinkers, people who can use data at the speed-of-thought.
Three problems must be addressed:
- ineffective information presentations,
- poor exploratory capabilities, and
- difficult user interfaces.
This whitepaper describes how Tableau Software solves these problems with a declarative visual query language (VizQL) that simultaneously describes how to query data and how to present it visually. The result is a fundamentally new way of interacting with databases and spreadsheets. Software products based on VizQL can be used for tasks that range from everyday question-answering that require small data collections and simple visual analysis to mission-critical tasks that require very large data collections and deep multi-dimensional visual analysis.
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Authors
Pat Hanrahan
CTO
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Tableau Software
Pat is Tableau Software’s CTO and also the CANON USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Pat’s research has included visualization, image synthesis, and graphics systems and architectures. He was a founding employee of Pixar (NASDAQ: PIXR), where he was the chief architect of the RenderMan™ Interface - a protocol that has revolutionized the modern graphics and entertainment industries. Pat is the winner of two Academy Awards, the Spirit of America Creativity Award, the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Lifetime Achievement Award and an IEEE Lifetime Achievement Award.
Chris Stolte
VP, Engineering
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Tableau Software
At Stanford University, Chris researched the analysis and exploration of large, complex databases. This research resulted in a dozen landmark research publications and two large-scale visualization systems. Chris was also CTO and co-founder of BeeLine Systems, a visualization software company that developed a revolutionary map rendering system (now owned by Microsoft). Chris is a co-inventor on five software patents related to information visualization. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University.
Jock Mackinlay
Director of Visual Analysis
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Tableau Software
Jock is Tableau’s Director of Visual Analysis. Jock has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, where he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information. He joined Xerox PARC in 1986, where he collaborated with the User Interface Research Group to develop many novel applications of computer graphics for information access, coining the term “Information Visualization.” Much of the fruits of this research can be seen in his book, “Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think.” Jock is a co-inventor of numerous software patents related to information visualization.
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