Spotfire Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
According to Christopher Ahlberg, founder and CEO of Spotfire Inc., it is people, not computers, who are best at detecting important patterns and trends in data. Ahlberg co-founded Spotfire in 1996 to commercialize his thesis work on human-computer interfaces with the idea of "exploiting the natural human capacity to perceive patterns in visual information".