Data exploration system
First Claim
1. A data exploration and analysis system for facilitating a user'"'"'s analysis and comprehension of information relationships within one or more groups of data, comprising:
- at least one processor;
at least one storage device containing at least one software program;
at least one input device; and
at least one output device, wherein the processor is operative to execute the software program, and to cooperate with the input device and the output device, for;
obtaining one or more groups of data, organizing the data groups in respective layers, the respective layers being arranged in a hierarchy such that each respective layer within the hierarchy is subordinate to a layer conceptually above the respective layer, outputting at least one visual representation of the data via the output device, wherein a representation of at least a portion of at least one data group organized in at least one subordinate layer is capable of being hidden in the visual output representation, and in response to an input provided by the input device, allowing the hidden data representation corresponding to the subordinate layer to be visible in the visual output representation of the data.
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Abstract
An improved data exploration system and method that can be used to analyze and to explore complex data sets involving multiple data dimensions and multi-variable data presentations. The data exploration system generates visual representations of complex data sets in map, table, and tree view formats. In each of these view formats, both the appearance and the arrangement of the symbols representing the data sets are based on the data itself to facilitate the comprehension of patterns and information relationships within the data sets. Further, the data can be viewed at different levels of density to perform detailed analysis of the data, and to detect the presence of overall trends within the data. Moreover, the data exploration system performs a suite of calculation operations to cast the data in different forms, and to facilitate the acquisition, integration, and analysis of the data.
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40 Claims
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1. A data exploration and analysis system for facilitating a user'"'"'s analysis and comprehension of information relationships within one or more groups of data, comprising:
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at least one processor;
at least one storage device containing at least one software program;
at least one input device; and
at least one output device, wherein the processor is operative to execute the software program, and to cooperate with the input device and the output device, for;
obtaining one or more groups of data, organizing the data groups in respective layers, the respective layers being arranged in a hierarchy such that each respective layer within the hierarchy is subordinate to a layer conceptually above the respective layer, outputting at least one visual representation of the data via the output device, wherein a representation of at least a portion of at least one data group organized in at least one subordinate layer is capable of being hidden in the visual output representation, and in response to an input provided by the input device, allowing the hidden data representation corresponding to the subordinate layer to be visible in the visual output representation of the data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of facilitating a user'"'"'s analysis and comprehension of information relationships within one or more groups of data, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining one or more groups of data;
organizing the data groups in respective layers, the respective layers being arranged in a hierarchy such that each respective layer within the hierarchy is subordinate to a layer conceptually above the respective layer;
providing at least one visual representation of the data, wherein a representation of at least a portion of at least one data group organized in at least one subordinate layer is capable of being hidden in the visual output representation; and
in response to a predetermined event, allowing the hidden data representation corresponding to the subordinate layer to be visible in the visual output representation of the data. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A data exploration and analysis system for facilitating a user'"'"'s analysis and comprehension of information relationships within one or more groups of data, comprising:
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at least one processor;
at least one storage device containing at least one software program; and
at least one output device, wherein the processor is operative to execute the software program, and to cooperate with the output device, for;
obtaining one or more groups of data, each data group including a first plurality of data units, each data unit having information associated therewith, and outputting at least one visual representation of the data in a map format via the output device, each data unit being represented by a respective symbol in the visual representation of the data, each symbol having a corresponding position in the map format of the visual representation, wherein the position corresponding to at least one of the respective symbols is based on the information associated with the data unit represented by the respective symbol. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method of facilitating a user'"'"'s analysis and comprehension of information relationships within one or more groups of data, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining one or more groups of data, each data group including a first plurality of data units, each data unit having information associated therewith; and
outputting at least one visual representation of the data in a map format, each data unit being represented by a respective symbol in the visual representation of the data, each symbol having a corresponding position in the map format of the visual representation, wherein the position corresponding to at least one of the respective symbols is based on the information associated with the data unit represented by the respective symbol. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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