Senior Product Manager

Anushka Anand

About

Anushka Anand is a Senior Product Manager on Project Maestro helping build Tableau's new data preparation product. She is leading the team's efforts in augmented data preparation as they work to help customers understand data quality issues, clean and combine data with the use of Machine Learning (ML) methods.

Anushka was a member of the Tableau Research team from 2012-2017 working on visualization recommendation with projects such as Voyager and Auto-Partitioner, actively publishing in the VIS community. She led the creation of a Recommendations engineering team and helped shape the server-based recommendation features available in Tableau 10.3 and 10.4.

Anushka earned her Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago actively publishing in the VIS and KDD communities. On the side, Anushka serves on the Program Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and helped found the Fremont Womxn in Technology group.

Focus

Algorithms for Automated Graphical Design of Visualizations
Visualization Techniques
Machine Learning

Leveraging smart analytics to help people understand data.

Papers

Towards A General-Purpose Query Language for Visualization Recommendation

Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, and Jeffrey Heer

Proceedings of the Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA '16)

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Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations

Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer

The IEEE Information Visualization Conference (Chicago, October 25-30, 2015)

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Automatic Selection of Partitioning Variables for Small Multiple Displays

Anushka Anand, Justin Talbot

The IEEE Information Visualization Conference (Chicago, October 25-30, 2015)

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Four Experiments on the Perception of Bar Charts

Justin Talbot, Vidya Setlur, Anushka Anand

Infovis 2014, Paris, France

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Visual Pattern Discovery using Random Projections

Anushka Anand, Tuan Nhon Dang, Leland Wilkinson

Anushka Anand, Tuan Nhon Dang, and Leland Wilkinson. “Visual pattern discovery using random projections”. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2012.

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High-Dimensional Visual Analytics: Interactive Exploration Guided by Pairwise Views of Point Distributions

Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, Robert Grossman

Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, Robert Grossman. High-Dimensional Visual Analytics: Interactive Exploration Guided by Pairwise Views of Point Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 12(6), p. 1363-1372 (2006)

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Graph-Theoretic Scagnostics

Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, Robert Grossman

Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, Robert Grossman. "Graph-Theoretic Scagnostics". Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, p. 157-164, 2005.

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