I would like to suggest a GUI UI change. Move the list of filters at the left side of the screen to pulldown selection boxes placed above the top of each display column. When pulled down what you get is a list of all the unique values present in the column. Use of ctrl and shift can be used to select multiple filters. There should be an 'advanced' selection in each pulldown that will bring up a dialog to specify more complex filters. This will save quite a bit of screen real estate. This is the scheme used in Excel for filtering which can be looked at to see how this suggestion might be implemented in detail.
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