I’m a founder and V . P . of Tableau Software. a business I co-founded together with Pat Hanrahan and Christian Chabot. At Tableau, we’re creating a next-generation analysis and query interface to corporate databases.

I began Tableau after you have a Ph.D. from Stanford College in June 2003. My consultant at Stanford was Pat Hanrahan and my thesis focused on visualization means of exploring and analyzing relational databases and understanding cubes. The primary outcomes of these studies was an interactive visualization dental appliance formalism known as Polaris. At Stanford, I in addition needed part inside the Rivet computers visualization project with Robert Bosch and Diane Tang.

In those days I had been at Stanford, Maneesh Agrawala. Christian Chabot, i co-founded Beeline Systems, a visualization software company that created a cutting-edge map rendering system known as LineDrive. BeeLine was purchased by Vicinity Corporation (NASDAQ: VCNT) in 2000. LineDrive maps can be found by Mappoint Driving Directions.

Used to my undergraduate concentrate on Simon Fraser College in Vancouver. B.C. Canada. While there, Used to research on graph theory problems (multi-dimensional spanners) with Art Liestman and Tom Shermer

Teaching

In november 2001 I had been a teaching-assistant (TA) for Terry Winograd’s CS147: “Overview of Human-Computer Interaction” class, through the cold several days quarter of 2002 I had been a TA for Maggie Johnson’s CS103B: “Discrete Structures” class, plus spring quarter 2002 I brought to Pat Hanrahan’s CS448: Special Topics in Visualization .

Studies

Visualization and Analysis of Databases: Recently, large multi-dimensional databases have become common in lots of applications for example data warehousing and scientific computing.

Analysis and exploration tasks place significant demands across the interfaces to the people databases.

We’ve created an effective language for describing table-based visualizations of databases and database queries. Specifications during this language may be printed by our interpreter into some efficient queries and drawing operations to create displays. This language was applied because the reason for Polaris. a effective tool for exploring and analyzing databases. In addition, we applied this language in the introduction of a procedure for interactively exploring level-of-detail hierarchies in OLAP databases. The paper describing this process won the very best-paper award at InfoVis in 2002.
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Rendering Effective Route Maps: Route maps, or driving directions, emerged probably the most broadly used applications on the internet. The standard computer-generated route maps, however, are frequently hard to use. We’ve created an authentic-time system for instantly designing and rendering more route maps within the new, more functional style. The thought of these maps draws on according to cognitive psychology research studying how route maps are utilized as well as on an research to the generalizations generally found in handdrawn route maps.
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Publications