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Chris Stolte

About

Chris Stolte is Tableau Software's Chief Development Officer and is responsible for product strategy, product design and engineering. Prior to co-founding Tableau, Chris spent six years researching the analysis and exploration of multidimensional data at Stanford University, culminating in the Polaris system which was the basis for Tableau’s first products. This research resulted in fourteen research publications and two large-scale visualization systems. Chris was also the CTO and co-founder of BeeLine Systems, a visualization software company that developed a revolutionary map rendering system and was purchased by Vicinity Corporation (NASDAQ: VCNT). Chris is a co-inventor on five software patents related to information visualization. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University.

Focus

  • Computer Graphics & Visualization
  • Databases
  • User Interface Design

Papers

Dynamic Workload Driven Data Integration in Tableau.

Morton, K., Bunker, R., Mackinlay, J., Morton, R., Stolte, C.
Proceedings of SIGMOD’12 May 2012. 807-16.
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Visual interfaces to data.

Chris Stolte
Proceedings of SIGMOD '10. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1067-1068.
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Polaris: a system for query, analysis, and visualization of multidimensional databases.

Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan
Proceeding IEEE InfoVis’00 reprinted Commun. ACM 51, 11 (November 2008), 75-84.
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Design choices when architecting visualizations.

Diane Tang, Chris Stolte, Robert Bosch
Information Visualization 3, 2 (June 2004), 65-79.

Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation.

Jeff Heer, Jock Mackinlay, Chris Stolte, Maneesh Agrawala
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 14(6), 1189-1196 (Also Proceedings of IEEE Infovis’2008).
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Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis.

Jock D. Mackinlay, Pat Hanrahan, Chris Stolte
IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6), 1137-1144. (Also Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis’2007).
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Multiscale Visualization Using Data Cubes

Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan
"InfoVis 2002 Best Paper". In Proceedings INFOVIS '02.

Multiscale Visualization Using Data Cubes.

Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 9, 2 (April 2003), 176-187.

Query, analysis, and visualization of hierarchically structured data using Polaris.

Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan
Proceedings of KDD '02. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 112-122.
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