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by ArtWomb 1483 days ago
The converse is something akin to Tableau, which came out of the graphics department of Stanford and Pat Hanrahan's lab. Tableau was acquired by Salesforce for around $15B. No doubt, proximity to SV was key to their growth. But the original research from 20+ years ago on DataCubes visualization was a product of academia. It just so happened to coincide with our era of "democratizing data science" ;)

Multiscale Visualization Using Data Cubes

https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/pan_zoom/