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Our product whitepapers are written to help people better understand the science behind Tableau products and data visualization tools.
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Dr. Jock Mackinlay, Director of Visual Analysis, Tableau Software
This paper traces the history of visual representation, from early cave drawings through the computer revolution and the launch of Tableau.
Jeffrey Heer, Jock D. Mackinlay, Chris Stolte, Maneesh Agrawala
Interactive history tools, ranging from basic undo and redo to branching timelines of user actions, facilitate iterative forms of interaction. In this paper, we investigate the design of history mechanisms for information visualization.
Jock D. Mackinlay, Pat Hanrahan, and Chris Stolte
This paper describes Show Me, an integrated set of user interface commands and defaults that incorporate automatic
presentation into a commercial visual analysis system called Tableau.
Stephen Few, Perceptual Edge
Learn to expand your analytical reach and comprehension by viewing data in dashboards.
This paper will focus on the insights that emerge when software enables us to view a set of data from several perspectives at the same time.
Dr. Pat Hanrahan, CTO; Dr. Chris Stolte, VP, Engineering; Dr. Jock Mackinlay, Director of Visual Analysis
This whitepaper describes how Tableau Software solves ineffective information presentations and poor exploratory capabilities with a declarative visual query language (VizQL) that simultaneously describes how to query data and how to present it visually.