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Featured Blog by Jeffrey Heer

Congratulations to Pat Hanrahan, 2019 ACM Turing Award Recipient

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Jeffrey Heer

Jeff Heer is Trifacta’s Chief Experience Officer, Co-founder and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab. Jeff’s passion is the design of novel user interfaces for exploring, managing and communicating data. The data visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Protovis, Prefuse) are used by thousands of data enthusiasts around the world. In 2009, Jeff was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of “Top Innovators under 35”.

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Congratulations to Pat Hanrahan, 2019 ACM Turing Award Recipient

In our current stress and uncertainty it can help to hear good news that lifts one’s spirits. Accordingly, we were thrilled to learn that Pat Hanrahan and Ed Catmull will receive the 2019 ACM Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize” of Computer Science. While the award citation focuses on Pat and... more
Jeffrey Heer  |  March 31, 2020
 
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Preparing for the Next Phase of the Trifacta and Tableau Partnership

When we set out to build a data preparation platform, the problem we were solving was obvious. Given the growing diversity of data sources and the variety of downstream analysis and visualization tools to choose from, we saw—and continue to see—data preparation as a critical intermediary to making data actionable... more
Jeffrey Heer  |  April 26, 2018
 
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Tableau Software from the Early Days: Tableau’s first intern reflects

Tableau made headlines recently for appointing a new CEO and much of the conversation about the company focuses on the company’s stock performance and market share. What shouldn’t get forgotten in all of this chatter is what Tableau has managed to accomplish: bringing the thrill of visually exploring data to a... more
Jeffrey Heer  |  September 8, 2016