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ENGINEERING, RESEARCH, AND CULTURE FROM THE TABLEAU DEVELOPMENT TEAM


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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
In Defense of the Untidy Data Table
IN DEFENSE OF THE UNTIDY DATA TABLE

Some of the least glamorous types of data work are also the most common and
important for making sense of data.
Michael Correll
Oct 5, 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
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