Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases.

During the last decade, multidimensional databases have become common in the business and scientific worlds. Analysis places significant demands on the interfaces to these databases. It must be possible for analysts to easily and incrementally change both the data and their views of it as they cycle...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 11; pp. 75 - 85
Autores principales: Stolte, Chris, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2008
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          Diane Tang
          Pat Hanrahan
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          Founder and vice president of Tableau Software, Seattle, WA.
          Software researcher, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA.
          Canon USA Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
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        Information storage & retrieval systems software
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        Database management software
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        Visual programming languages (Computer science)
        Data warehousing
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