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We went into this exercise treating our E2E test coverage as the way I view the US defense budget: excessive, but much of it necessary.

In this article, we show how Blocks can be a promising UI paradigm for supporting the creation of rich tables.

This is a blog post was co-written by Britta Fiore-Gartland, Melanie Tory, Lyn Bartram , and Anamaria Crisan, and is associated with the…

As an industrial research scientist, one needs to be flexible and adapt to whatever makes sense to push that idea forward…

Explain Data isn’t about closed loop analysis — it can’t be with autoML — but rather to keep the human in the loop.

Writing Catch2 tests is simple and idiomatic. Here is an introduction to how we write unit tests using it.

Here is how we support highly parallelized workflows on our Serverless architecture.

When designing our prototyping systems, we needed to find a consistent and maintainable setup. We built it on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB.

A brief introduction to HyperLogLog, one of the most useful and elegant algorithms in modern data processing.

Rewriting our application from scratch was not an option, so we built a way of sharing UI code between local app and in-browser uses.

The Hyper API allows you to not only write data into Hyper files but also to read data from them. Here’s how to use it to union tables.

Natural language interfaces (NLIs) for visualization lack guidance and discoverability. Our new system helps users take the next step.

Our experimental Diatoms method helps inspire visualization designs by sampling from palettes of mark shapes and encoding channels.

Data is everywhere in organizations, but how do people actually use it to communicate, present, and collaborate? We ran a study to find…

We found that, in practice, AutoML is (mostly) a misnomer

Spatial data plays a big role in data analysis. Our recent research helps people refine fuzzy boundaries for better queries.

Scrum teams often find that daily stand-ups take longer than expected. Here’s a simple strategy for shorter and more focused meetings.

Some of the ways of naming actions in Redux appear to be leading people to turning it into a tightly-coupled pub-sub message bus.

While maps are always awesome, they are also always wrong. A unicorn map does not exist, we have to understand the tradeoffs of…

My lambda keeps running out of memory??

How to build an animated welcome screen with components that swipe, navigation dots, and fixed buttons.

Developers can have an outsized impact on customers and the product by participating in customer calls. Here are our experiences.

We describe our open-source query visualization library, which we built to visualize query expressions and understand their behavior.