Polaris Research Project Initiated

Name: Polaris Research Project Initiated
Start: 1997-01-01
Location: Stanford University, California, USA

Professor Pat Hanrahan and PhD student Chris Stolte began the Polaris research project, exploring visual query languages for databases, laying the theoretical and technical groundwork for Tableau.

Significance

This research project, published in significant academic papers, developed the core concepts and algorithms for automatically generating interactive data visualizations from relational data, directly leading to Tableau's founding technology.

Key facts

Date: 1997-01-01
Type: invention
Location: Stanford University, California, USA