Brad Hopper, VP of Industry Applications at Spotfire, details how the company’ s visual data science is transforming semiconductor manufacturing
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Brad Hopper, VP of Industry Applications at Spotfire, details how the company’ s visual data science is transforming semiconductor manufacturing
I n a world where manufacturing increasingly relies on data analysis to drive innovation, Spotfire is helping engineers across industries unlock insights that would otherwise remain hidden in complex datasets.
Brad Hopper, VP of Industry Applications at Spotfire, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, is well placed to explain how the company’ s visual data science platform is transforming high-tech manufacturing, particularly in the semiconductor industry, where data complexity and production demands continue to grow.
Founded in 1996, Spotfire emerged from the postdoctoral work of its founder, Christopher Ahlberg, whose research focused on creating better human interfaces for databases. The company’ s original mission – to use visual interaction to help humans find insights to recognise patterns, outliers and trends in large datasets – continues to drive its development today.
“ The idea is bringing the human mind directly in contact with the data via interactive visual software,” explains Brad.“ We started our business focused on life science, specifically pharmaceutical research, and we were successful early on, supplying analytical software to biologists and chemists.”
“We’ re striving to become the high-tech manufacturing software of record for every company we can”
BRAD HOPPER, VP OF INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, SPOTFIRE
52 May 2025