Last year they acuired Empirical Systems, "an eight-person artificial intelligen...

		jamessb on June 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B 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

Yes but they’re not hardcore statisticians like the Empirical people except for this Daniel Ting fellow