Using Visual Analysis to Answer any Question by Tableau Software
Although visual interfaces and databases are two of the success stories of the computer revolution, their synergy to date has been modest, probably because visual interfaces have focused on human capabilities while databases have focused on efficient query processing. Unlocking this synergy will shift us from data workers to data thinkers, people who can use data at the speed-of-thought.
Three problems must be addressed:
ineffective information presentations,
poor exploratory capabilities, and
difficult user interfaces.
This whitepaper describes how Tableau Software ...