System and method for visualization of categories
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Abstract
Distribution displays for categories are provided which illuminate the distribution of continuous attributes over all cases in a category, and which provide a histogram of the population of the different states of categorical attributes. An array of such displays by attribute (in one dimension) and category (in another dimension) may be provided. Category diagram displays are also provided for visualizing the different categories, and their distributions, populations, and similarities. These are displayed through different shading of nodes and edges representing categories and the relationship between two categories, and through proximity of nodes.
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162 Claims
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1-53. -53. (canceled)
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54. A method for displaying category data, where a data set comprises at least two categories, each comprising a category data set, said method comprising:
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calculating similarity for said selected category and each other category from among said at least two categories; and
providing a display where each of said at least two categories is represented by an object, where each of said at least two categories is connected to each other of said at least two categories by an edge, and where the position of said objects is determined through a charge-and-spring graph layout algorithm, where each object is assigned an equal charge and where each pair of said objects is connected by a spring whose strength is proportional to said similarity of the categories represented by said pair of objects.
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108. A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable modules having computer-executable instructions for displaying category data, where a data set comprises at least two categories, each comprising a category data set, said modules comprising:
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a module for calculating similarity for said selected category and each other category from among said at least two categories; and
a module for providing a display where each of said at least two categories is represented by an object, where each of said at least two categories is connected to each other of said at least two categories by an edge, and where the position of said objects is determined through a charge-and-spring graph layout algorithm, where each object is assigned an equal charge and where each pair of said objects is connected by a spring whose strength is proportional to said similarity of the categories represented by said pair of objects.
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109-161. -161. (canceled)
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162. A computer device for displaying category data, where a data set comprises at least two categories, each comprising a category data set, said device comprising:
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means for calculating similarity for said selected category and each other category from among said at least two categories; and
means for providing a display where each of said at least two categories is represented by an object, where each of said at least two categories is connected to each other of said at least two categories by an edge, and where the position of said objects is determined through a charge-and-spring graph layout algorithm, where each object is assigned an equal charge and where each pair of said objects is connected by a spring whose strength is proportional to said similarity of the categories represented by said pair of objects.
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