<story><title>Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a data analysis startup using natural language</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sprobertson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been working on a (soon to be) open source version of this, I didn&amp;#x27;t realize there was a real business version out there. So far it works great alongside Salesforce e.g. &amp;quot;Find me appointments in San Mateo today set by Jason Jones&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a data analysis startup using natural language</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bgraves</author><text>Saw a pretty sweet demo of Tableau&amp;#x27;s home-grown prototype at their annual conference last November. It was surprisingly useful to be able to just speak &amp;quot;show me all of the 3-bedroom homes in the downtown Seattle area less than $400,000&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It was slow, but effective. I kept feeling myself wanting to click around for the first few minutes but quickly realized I didn&amp;#x27;t need to.&lt;p&gt;I did have to speak in away that the NLP engine could understand (i.e. &amp;quot;four-hundred thousand dollars&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;four-hundred k&amp;quot;) so it still feels like I&amp;#x27;m building a SQL query with my voice instead of just speaking an idea and the software figures out what I mean (hard problem to solve, I know!)</text></comment>