

In June 2018, Tableau acquired Empirical Systems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based artificial intelligence startup, with plans to integrate the company's technology into the Tableau platform. In August 2016, Tableau announced the appointment of Adam Selipsky as president and CEO, effective September 16, 2016, replacing co-founder Christian Chabot as CEO. A new headquarters building opened near Gas Works Park in Wallingford in March 2017 and was followed by a new building in Fremont that opened in 2018. The company has since expanded its Fremont headquarters and announced plans in 2016 for an auxiliary campus in suburban Kirkland, Washington. Tableau was formally founded in January 2003 by Pat Hanrahan, Christian Chabot, and Chris Stolte, and moved its headquarters to the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, the following year. ASCI was formed to facilitate the simulation and modeling of nuclear weapons.
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While at Stanford, founders Hanrahan and Stolte, as well as Diane Tang, created the predecessor to Tableau, named Polaris Polaris was a data visualization software tool, built with the support of a United States Department of Energy defense program, the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI). Boolean Values (True / False Conditions).Geographic Values (Latitude and longitude used for maps).In Tableau, the following data types are supported Tableau will make use of the data type that the data source has defined if it exits, or it will choose a data type if the data source does not specify one. Tableau express automatically data types and fields. csv), Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), Microsoft Access (.accdb), import from Tableau workbook (.tbm) or Tableau Table data Extract (.tds). Tableau Software can connect to data sources such as regular text files (.txt. Geographies can be grouped to create custom territories or custom geocoding used to extend existing geographic roles in the product. The built-in geo-coding allows for administrative places (country, state/province, county/district), postal codes, US Congressional Districts, US CBSA/ MSA, Area Codes, Airports, and European Union statistical areas ( NUTS codes) to be mapped automatically. The software is able to plot latitude and longitude coordinates and connect to spatial files like Esri Shapefiles, KML, and GeoJSON to display custom geography. Tableau offers drag and drop and other features such as multiple chart formats and mapping capabilities. Some visualizations created by Tableau Software. Tableau Vizable (consumer data visualization mobile app released in 2015).

