Multi-mode viewer control for viewing and managing groups of statistics

• US 20090183104A1
• Filed: 12/30/2008
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: People Driven Performance, Inc.
• Original Assignee: People Driven Performance, Inc.
• Inventors: Dotson, J. Dennis, Dotson, Gerald A.
• Application Number:
  US12/319,131
• Publication Number:
  US 20090183104A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/97 Instrumentation and component modelling, e.g. interactive control panel

Abstract

Methods, systems, and techniques for presenting performance indicators using numeric data and interpretive information are provided. Example embodiments provide a stat-pac viewer control that allows a user to toggle seamlessly between a numeric view of performance data and an interpreted view, the interpreted view presenting value judgments associated with the data. In one embodiment, the interpreted view is based at least in part upon one or more rules for interpreting the numeric data as belonging to one or more zones, each zone corresponding to a ring of an archery target representation. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for displaying statistical data on a display screen, comprising:

determining a plurality of statistics and their corresponding numeric values;

under control of a computing system,

displaying a representation of an archery target having one or more rings emanating outward from the center of the target, each ring corresponding with at least one of one or more interpretive zones, each interpretive zone associated with a unique visual characteristic that is used to display the corresponding ring;

for each determined statistic,

determining at least one of the one or more interpretive zones to associate with the numeric value that corresponds to the determined statistic, based at least in part on one or more interpretation rules that associate one or more ranges of numeric values with at least one of the one or more interpretive zones; and

displaying on the display screen a symbolic representation of the numeric value on the displayed representation of the archery target within the ring that is associated with the determined one or more interpretive zones associated with the numeric value, simultaneously with the numeric value.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the symbolic representation of the numeric value is a dot.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the symbolic representation of the numeric value is displayed with auxiliary notations.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more interpretive zones designate five different value judgments of the ranges of numeric values.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the unique visual characteristic that is used to display a corresponding ring is a color.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the colors are yellow, red, blue, black, and white.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the rings represent ranges of numeric values from the center outward that are characterized from good to bad.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the determined plurality of statistics are associated with a first period of time.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

determining a second plurality of comparative statistics associated with a second period of time; and

superimposing a symbolic representation of each of the determined second plurality of comparative statistics on the displayed representation of the archery target such that each numeric value associated with the first period of time is displayed relative to a numeric value associated with the second period of time.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of statistics are performance related indicators.

11. A computer-readable storage medium containing contents that when executed cause a computer processor to present a user interface control to display statistical information, by performing a method comprising:

presenting a numeric view that displays one or more numeric values, each corresponding to one of a plurality of performance measurements and each associated with an interpretation zone indicative of a judgment associated with the numeric value; and

in response to receiving an indication to toggle the view to an interpreted view, presenting an interpreted view of the plurality of performance measurements, the interpreted view representing each corresponding numeric value as a symbol on a visual representation of the interpretation zone associated with the corresponding numeric value along with a numeric representation of the numeric value.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the visual representation of the interpretation zone is a graphical representation of an archery target.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the presented numeric view displays each numeric value in a color associated with the interpretation zone associated with the numeric value.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, the method further comprising:

presenting a superimposition of a second plurality of statistics for comparison to the presented view.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the medium is a computer memory containing instructions that, when executed, cause a computer processor to perform the method.

16. A display device for displaying a visual representation of a data structure stored in memory, the visual representation including a plurality of performance indicators, each performance indicator displaying an associated graph and a data round placed on the graph according to a respective numeric value of the performance indicator, and at least one indication of a control that is selectable by a user to show an interpreted representation of the respective numeric value of each performance indicator, such that a user, by selecting the indication of the control, can simultaneously display numeric information associated with each performance indicator along with interpretive information in the form of an archery target.

17. The display device of claim 16 wherein each data round is displayed in a color that represents interpretive information that corresponds to the respective numeric value of each performance indicator.

18. The display device of claim 16 wherein the data structure represents a user interface control.

19. The display device of claim 16 wherein the at least one indication of a control that is selectable by a user is an indicator used to toggle between a numeric view and an interpreted view.

20. The display device of claim 16 wherein the interpretive information in the form of an archery target comprises a plurality of rings that each represent a value judgment of a range of numeric values, and wherein the interpreted representation of the respective numeric value of each performance indicator is a data dot placed on a ring that corresponds to the range of numeric values that includes the respective numeric value.