Preface
Tableau is a suite of business analytics and data visualization tools that allows people to explore and analyze data quickly and easily with simple drag-and-drop operations.
Tableau software Inc. (http://www.tableau.com/) was founded in 2003 by Chris Stolte, Christian Chabot, and Pat Hanrahan. What began as a research project in Stanford University between 1999 and 2002 soon changed the way people see and interact with their data. Through the development of a database visualization language called VizQL (Visual Query Language), which is a combination of a structured query language for databases and a descriptive language for rendering graphics, Tableau was able to give great power to the end users and allowed them to visualize and interact ...
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