Last year they acuired Empirical Systems, "an eight-person artificial intelligence startup based in Cambridge, Mass" [1]. However, 'Tableau Research' [2] has e

Last year they acuired Empirical Systems, "an eight-person artificial intelligence startup based in Cambridge, Mass" [1]. However, 'Tableau Research' [2] has existed for years and its researchers regularly publish at major academic visualisation conferences like IEEE VIS (InfoVis/VAST) and EuroVis (see [3]). [1]: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/tableau-acquires-mit-ai-spinoff-empirical-systems-opens-new-rd-center-boston-area/ https://www.geekwire.com/2018/tableau-acquires-mit-ai-spinof... [2]: https://research.tableau.com/ https://research.tableau.com/ [3]: https://research.tableau.com/papers https://research.tableau.com/papers