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Wednesday’s General Session: The Value of Visualization
After another awesome lunch, today’s general session was The Value of Visualization by Tableau’s CTO, Pat Hanrahan. Pat is a very engaging speaker, which suits him since he’s also a professor at Stanford University.
He opened with a quick story of how he worked with Larry Page, one of the founder’s of Google. He likened Larry’s passion for search when the industry was young to Tableau’s passion for visualization.
Prestigious Computing Publication Honors Tableau Founders' Original Research
Tableau Software was recently honored by the computer science publication, Communications of the ACM (CACM). 50,000+ members of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) just received the November issue featuring a research paper by Chris Stolte, Diane Tang and Pat Hanrahan. Titled "Polaris: A System for Query,
Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases", it's about their invention Polaris, now called VizQL, the founding technology under Tableau Software. It also includes a foreword by Jim Gray, a pioneer, legend and brilliant mind in computer science. Jim Gray’s name may sound familiar; he’s the computer scientist who unfortunately went missing off the San Francisco Bay 2 years ago. Pat Hanrahan's recent blog entry describes how important Jim was to his and Chris's research.
Online videos of Stephen Few and Pat Hanrahan keynotes at Tuesday's Tableau Conference
Check out our on-the-spot video recordings of keynote speakers from Day Two (Tuesday, July 22) of Tableau's first ever Customer Conference. They include videos of Stephen Few and Pat Hanrahan.
Reminder - Earlybird Registration Closes Today for the Tableau Customer Conference
Just a quick reminder to Tableau Software customers. Today is the last day to earn the "early bird" discount for our first ever Customer Conference. It's just just 10 weeks away - July 20-22 here in Seattle at the Edgewater Hotel. Registrations so far have been very brisk so register today to guarantee your spot. You can get the early bird promotional code from your account manager or email us and we'll contact you.
We've added a slew of best practices and hands-on training sessions (check out our website for session descriptions). For example:
Registration is Open for the Tableau Customer Conference
We want you!
As mentioned, we're holding our first ever Tableau Customer Conference July 20-22, 2008 in Seattle, WA. And we just launched a website where we'll be keeping the latest news up-to-date. Head over to www.tableaucustomerconference.com and check out our agenda. It includes...
2007 IEEE Visualization Conference - Highlights and Reflections
Jock, Chris and I recently attended the IEEE Visualization Conference where we presented a paper on Tableau's ShowMe feature. The conference was one of the highlights of the year to me. I sense a growing recognition that visual analysis is key to many businesses, fields and communities. It is also heartening to hear so many positive remarks about Tableau and its technology.
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