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Activity Number: 11
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, August 9, 2015 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Council of Chapters
Abstract #314682
Title: Building a Big Data Visual Analytics System for Everyone
Author(s): Leland Wilkinson*
Companies: Tableau Software
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Tableau Software provides a platform that allows users to explore and visualize their data, perform analytics, and gain insights regardless of whether the data are small local files or massive databases located in the Cloud. In this talk, we describe two components of Tableau that make this possible: VizQL---Tableau's declarative language for visual analysis---and the query infrastructure that can execute fast queries across a wide range of data sources. In the last few releases, Tableau has added support for new data sources, such as Hadoop, Amazon Redshift, and Google BigQuery, as well as new analytic features, such as forecasting. We will describe the challenges we've faced in scaling visual analytics to big data and user interfaces to allow non-technical users to explore these data in real time.


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