Tableau Acquires AI for Data Understanding

Makes sense to integrate visualization with analytical methods and AI methods.  Visualization is a form of human understanding,  AI augments these human methods.  Look forward to seeing how this works, was a long time user of Tableau in the enterprise.

Tableau acquires Empirical Systems, an AI startup with MIT roots
By Maria Deutscher in SiliconAngle

Tableau Software Inc. is looking to enhance its data visualization platform through the newly announced acquisition of Empirical Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence startup with roots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The deal was made public this morning. As part of the transaction, Tableau is gaining Empirical’s Analytics Engine, a software tool designed to take much of the complexity out of large-scale data modelling. .... "