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Digging into Data Landscapes
Digging into Data Landscapes
Automatically creating visually coherent chart combinations
Ana Crisan
Oct 26, 2022
How the Tableau Product Internationalization Engineering Team translates millions of words into…
How the Tableau Product Internationalization Engineering Team translates millions of words into…
Localizing Tableau
Karla Wagner
Jul 28, 2022
Software Defense Spending
Software Defense Spending
We went into this exercise treating our E2E test coverage as the way I view the US defense budget: excessive, but much of it necessary.
Andy Kim
Jul 21, 2022
Creating Richer Tables Using Blocks
Creating Richer Tables Using Blocks
In this article, we show how Blocks can be a promising UI paradigm for supporting the creation of rich tables.
Dirk Karis
Jun 21, 2022
Beyond the Dashboard: Facilitating Data Conversations
Beyond the Dashboard: Facilitating Data Conversations
This is a blog post was co-written by Britta Fiore-Gartland, Melanie Tory, Lyn Bartram , and Anamaria Crisan, and is associated with the…
Brittany Fiore-Gartland
May 25, 2022
Being an industry research scientist
Being an industry research scientist
As an industrial research scientist, one needs to be flexible and adapt to whatever makes sense to push that idea forward…
Vidya Setlur
Apr 20, 2022
Explain Data, Explained
Explain Data, Explained
Explain Data isn’t about closed loop analysis — it can’t be with autoML — but rather to keep the human in the loop.
lara.r.thompson
Mar 30, 2022
You should give Catch2 a try
You should give Catch2 a try
Writing Catch2 tests is simple and idiomatic. Here is an introduction to how we write unit tests using it.
Hung Dang
Mar 16, 2022
Massive Serverless Parallelization
Massive Serverless Parallelization
Here is how we support highly parallelized workflows on our Serverless architecture.
V Maharajh
Feb 22, 2022
Building Serverless Prototypes
Building Serverless Prototypes
When designing our prototyping systems, we needed to find a consistent and maintainable setup. We built it on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB.
Anna Lee Barber
Feb 8, 2022
HyperLogLog and Beyond (On distinct counting from a data sketching researcher)
HyperLogLog and Beyond (On distinct counting from a data sketching researcher)
A brief introduction to HyperLogLog, one of the most useful and elegant algorithms in modern data processing.
Daniel Ting
Jan 18, 2022
Sharing Web UI Across Tableau’s Browser Client and Desktop Application
Sharing Web UI Across Tableau’s Browser Client and Desktop Application
Rewriting our application from scratch was not an option, so we built a way of sharing UI code between local app and in-browser uses.
Will Martin
Dec 14, 2021
Using the Hyper API to Union Hyper Files
Using the Hyper API to Union Hyper Files
The Hyper API allows you to not only write data into Hyper files but also to read data from them. Here’s how to use it to union tables.
Adrian Vogelsgesang
Dec 2, 2021
Helping People Ask Data Questions
Helping People Ask Data Questions
Natural language interfaces (NLIs) for visualization lack guidance and discoverability. Our new system helps users take the next step.
Arjun Srinivasan
Nov 17, 2021
Design Inspiration for Unique Visualization with Diatoms
Design Inspiration for Unique Visualization with Diatoms
Our experimental Diatoms method helps inspire visualization designs by sampling from palettes of mark shapes and encoding channels.
matt brehmer
Nov 2, 2021
How Do People Communicate and Collaborate with Data in Organizations?
How Do People Communicate and Collaborate with Data in Organizations?
Data is everywhere in organizations, but how do people actually use it to communicate, present, and collaborate? We ran a study to find…
Robert Kosara
Oct 26, 2021
Enterprise use of AutoML is less automated than you think
Enterprise use of AutoML is less automated than you think
We found that, in practice, AutoML is (mostly) a misnomer
Ana Crisan
Oct 19, 2021
Visual Autocompletion for Spatial Queries
Visual Autocompletion for Spatial Queries
Spatial data plays a big role in data analysis. Our recent research helps people refine fuzzy boundaries for better queries.
Sarah Battersby
Oct 12, 2021
A Different Kind of Daily Scrum
A Different Kind of Daily Scrum
Scrum teams often find that daily stand-ups take longer than expected. Here’s a simple strategy for shorter and more focused meetings.
Jason Estey
Sep 1, 2021
Redux — Command Bus or Event Store?
Redux — Command Bus or Event Store?
Some of the ways of naming actions in Redux appear to be leading people to turning it into a tightly-coupled pub-sub message bus.
Jason Estey
Jul 28, 2021
The Unicorn of Map Projections
The Unicorn of Map Projections
While maps are always awesome, they are also always wrong. A unicorn map does not exist, we have to understand the tradeoffs of…
Sarah Battersby
Jul 14, 2021
Running NodeJS in an AWS Lambda will make you lose your mind! Or at least your memory ;)
Running NodeJS in an AWS Lambda will make you lose your mind! Or at least your memory ;)
My lambda keeps running out of memory??
Raphael Hsieh
Jul 1, 2021
Building a Cool Welcome Screen in React Native
Building a Cool Welcome Screen in React Native
How to build an animated welcome screen with components that swipe, navigation dots, and fixed buttons.
Jeemin Sim
Jun 29, 2021
Developers, Get on That Customer Call
Developers, Get on That Customer Call
Developers can have an outsized impact on customers and the product by participating in customer calls. Here are our experiences.
Hadi Muliawan
Jun 9, 2021
To See and Understand Queries
To See and Understand Queries
We describe our open-source query visualization library, which we built to visualize query expressions and understand their behavior.
Rick Cole
May 25, 2021
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