Friday, October 17, 2014

CMU's DataSquid Wins First Prize at Three Rivers Venture Fair

DataSquid, a startup founded by Professor Niki Kittur and Jeff Rzeszotarski from CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute won first prize at the Three Rivers Venture Fair University Tech Showcase on October 7. DataSquid uses state-of- the-art data visualization techniques that make exploring, understanding and presenting data easy on mobile devices. The company is working through AlphaLab to commercialize their data visualization software, originally known as Kinetica.