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'''Tableau Software''' is a [[software]] company<ref>[https://www.wired.com/2014/07/a-drag-and-drop-toolkit-that-lets-anyone-create-interactive-maps/ A Dead-Simple Tool That Lets Anyone Create Interactive Maps]</ref> headquartered in Seattle, [[Washington]], [[United States]] that produces interactive data visualization products<ref>[http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/tableau-software-helps-data-become-more-visual/ Tableau Software Helping Data Become More Visual]</ref> focused on [[business intelligence]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tableau.com/business-intelligence |title=Tableau Business Intelligence |publisher=Tableau Software |date= |accessdate=2013-04-11}}</ref> It initially began in order to commercialize research which had been conducted at [[Stanford University]]'s Department of Computer Science between 1999 and 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/03/05/how-to-get-a-20-million-pre-money-valuation-for-series-a-tableau-software-ceo-christian-chabot-part-3/ |title=How To Get a 20 Million Dollar Pre-Money Valuation for Series A: Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot (Part 3) |publisher=One MIllion by One Million by Sramana Mitra|date= |accessdate=2014-04-23}}</ref> It was founded in Mountain View, [[California]] in January, 2003 by Chris Stolte, who specialized in visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~cstolte/ |title=Christopher R. Stolte: Ph.D. Candidate @ Stanford |publisher=Graphics.stanford.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-11-16}}</ref> The product queries relational databases, OLAP cubes, cloud databases, and spreadsheets and then generates a number of graph types.