Displaying data lineage using three dimensional virtual reality model

• US 10,431,002 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2017
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gordon, Itai, Prager, Ilan D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phong X
• Application Number:
  US15/440,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20180240273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• Field of Search: 345419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/215 Improving data quality; Data cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/283 Multi-dimensional databases or data warehouses, e.g. MOLAP or ROLAP
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/003 Navigation within 3D models or images

Abstract

An example system includes a processor to receive data lineage including a plurality of levels, and a configuration. The processor is to also build a three dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) model including a first floor based on data lineage content corresponding to a first level of the plurality of levels and the configuration. The processor is to further display a view of the 3D VR model.

Claims

1. A system, comprising a processor to:

receive data lineage comprising a plurality of levels, and a configuration;

build a three dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) model comprising a plurality of floors based on data lineage content corresponding to the plurality of levels and the configuration, the 3D VR model depicting, on at least a first of the plurality of floors, a plurality of rooms of a virtual building representing data elements and hallways of the building representing data flows between the data elements, wherein the 3D VR model comprises a first floor in the virtual building based on data lineage content corresponding to a first level of the plurality of levels, and the processor is to build a second floor in the 3D VR model based on a second level of the plurality of levels in response to detecting a request for a change in context; and

display a view of the 3D VR model, wherein the 3D VR model is configured for a user to navigate the plurality of the rooms and hallways of the virtual building to determine lineage of data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is to update the view of the 3D VR model in response to detecting a request for existing data from a data asset by detecting the user navigating the 3D VR model by opening a door to a room in the virtual building in which the data asset is located in the 3D VR model.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the door to the room in the virtual building in which the data asset is located is connected to a hallway of the virtual building through which the user navigates in the 3D VR model.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is to prefetch data from the data lineage content based on a predicted request.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is to predict a request for data based on one or more previous requests.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is to generate the data lineage content based on the data lineage.

7. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, via a processor, data lineage comprising a plurality of levels, and a configuration;

building, via the processor, a three dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) model comprising a plurality of floors based on data lineage content corresponding to the plurality of levels and the configuration, the 3D VR model depicting, on at least a first of the plurality of floors, a plurality of rooms of a virtual building representing data elements and hallways of the building representing data flows between the data elements, wherein the 3D VR model comprises a first floor in the virtual building based on data lineage content corresponding to a first level of the plurality of levels, and the processor is to build a second floor in the 3D VR model based on a second level of the plurality of levels in response to detecting a request for a change in context; and

displaying, via the processor, a view of the 3D VR model, wherein the 3D VR model is configured for a user to navigate the plurality of the rooms and hallways of the virtual building to determine lineage of data.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, comprising updating, via the processor, the view of the 3D VR model in response to detecting a request for existing data from a data asset by detecting the user navigating the 3D VR model by opening a door to a room in the virtual building in which the data asset is located in the 3D VR model.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the door to the room in the virtual building in which the data asset is located is connected to a hallway of the virtual building through which the user navigates in the 3D VR model.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, comprising prefetching, via the processor, data from the data lineage content based on a predicted request.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, comprising executing, via the processor, the data lineage to generate data lineage content used to build the 3D VR model.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, comprising detecting a root cause of a temporal issue and modifying a value of a data element corresponding to the detected root cause.

13. A computer program product for generating three dimensional virtual reality models, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program code executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

receive data lineage comprising a plurality of levels, and a configuration;

build a three dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) model comprising a plurality of floors based on data lineage content corresponding to the plurality of levels and the configuration, the 3D VR model depicting, on at least a first of the plurality of floors, a plurality of rooms of a virtual building representing data elements and hallways of the building representing data flows between the data elements, wherein the 3D VR model comprises a first floor in the virtual building based on data lineage content corresponding to a first level of the plurality of levels, and the processor is to build a second floor in the 3D VR model based on a second level of the plurality of levels in response to detecting a request for a change in context; and

display a view of the 3D VR model, wherein the 3D VR model is configured for a user to navigate the plurality of the rooms and hallways of the virtual building to determine lineage of data.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, comprising program code executable by the processor to update the view of the 3D VR model in response to detecting a request for existing data from a data asset by detecting the user navigating the 3D VR model by opening a door to a room in the virtual building in which the data asset is located in the 3D VR model.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the door to the room in the virtual building in which the data asset is located is connected to a hallway of the virtual building through which the user navigates in the 3D VR model.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, comprising program code executable by the processor to prefetch data from the data lineage content based on a predicted request.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, comprising program code executable by the processor to predict a request for data based on one or more previous requests.

18. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the processor is to generate the data lineage content based on the data lineage.