Tableau Research Builds New UX for Data

Always looking for better user interfaces to make the curation and utilization of data more obvious to both the analyst and the decision maker,  who need to understand what they have, or may be missing, as it relates to real business decisions.    In GigaOM, interesting work under way at Tableau.  Have used Tableau for years, and always enjoyed its simplicity.  Still, it is not adequately transparent to the decision maker for both interaction and understanding the data.    Will new versions lead to better clarity?  I do hope so.

  Tableau, contact me for my further thoughts. 

  Look forward to seeing more about the results. From the GigaOM article (Via Walter Riker):

" ... “The real power [of Tableau] was to go through a bunch of different views to answer one question,” Mackinlay said. “All you have to be an expert at is your data and the questions you want to ask of it.” ...  Now, a new research division within Tableau (it technically was created about a year and a half ago) is trying to imagine and create the next set of technologies that change the way data analysis is done. The five-person team, which Mackinlay heads, consists of four visualization experts (including Mackinlay), a couple of whom are also specialize in statistics and one of whom specializes in high-performance computing. The fifth member specializes in natural-language processing and computer graphics. ... " 

And see Tableausoftware, which does a very good job of introducing their approach.  I also reviewed a recent book on their latest version.