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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by selimthegrim on Monday June 10, 2019 @09:24AM (#20146484)
Tableau has a research division they themselves acquired recently in Boston.
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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by jamessb on Monday June 10, 2019 @01:27PM (#20148820)
Last year they acuired Empirical Systems, "an eight-person artificial intelligence startup based in Cambridge, Mass" [1].

However, 'Tableau Research' [2] has existed for years and its researchers regularly publish at major academic visualisation conferences like IEEE VIS (InfoVis/VAST) and EuroVis (see [3]).

[1]: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/tableau-acquires-mit-ai-spinof...

[2]: https://research.tableau.com/

[3]: https://research.tableau.com/papers

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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by selimthegrim on Monday June 10, 2019 @03:10PM (#20149765)
Yes but they’re not hardcore statisticians like the Empirical people except for this Daniel Ting fellow
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