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Senior Research Scientist

Richard Wesley

About

I am a mathematician by training, with a background in several complex variables. After leaving school, I worked for several years on digital signal processing applications, mostly in the speech domain. Since joining Tableau, I have been working on high speed processing of both structured and semi-structured data, and on modeling and transforming data.

Focus

Hardware and Architecture
Database Query Processing

My work at Tableau is largely focused on high-speed data processing.

Papers

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Automating the Extraction of Date Scalars

Richard Wesley, Vidya Setlur, Dan Cory

Tableau Research White Paper (TR #2018-01)

Connecting Visualization and Data Management Research

Remco Chang and Jean-Daniel Fekete and Juliana Freire and Carlos E. Scheidegger

Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 7, Issue 11

Spreadsheet Property Detection With Rule-assisted Active Learning

Zhe Chen, Sasha Dadiomov, Richard Wesley, Daniel Cory, Michael Cafarella, Jock Mackinlay

CIKM’17 , November 6–10, 2017, Singapore, Singapore

Incremental Computation of Common Holistic Windowed Aggregates

Richard Wesley, Fei Xu

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 9, No. 12

On Improving User Response Times in Tableau

Pawel Terlecki; Fei Xu; Marianne Shaw ; Valeri Kim ; Richard Wesley;

2015 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia May 31 - June 4, 2015.

Leveraging Compression in the Tableau Data Engine.

Richard Michael Grantham Wesley, Pawel Terlecki

In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (SIGMOD '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 563-573.

An Analytic Data Engine for Visualization in Tableau.

Richard Michael Grantham Wesley, Matthew Eldridge, Pawel Terlecki

Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data (SIGMOD '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1185-1194.