REFERENCE MODEL FOR DATA-DRIVEN ANALYTICS

• US 20100131248A1
• Filed: 11/26/2008
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Rubin, Darryl E., Mital, Vijay, Green, David G.
• Granted Patent: US 8,103,608 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/00 Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics

Abstract

A taxonomy reference model for use in an analytical modeling component. The analytical modeling component defines analytical relationships between the model parameters using analytical relations. The analytical modeling component uses the analytical relations to identify which of the model parameters are known and which are unknown, and solves for the identified unknown model parameter(s). An analytics taxonomy categorizes the analytics relations into analytics categories. This analytics taxonomy may be domain-specific. Also, if the analytics drive visuals, the visuals could be taxonomized as well. If the analytics is driven by data, the data could also be taxonomized.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising one or more physical computer-readable media having thereon one or more computer-executable instruction(s) that, when executed by one or more processors of the computing system, cause the computing system to generate an analytics taxonomy for an analytical model that includes the following plurality of components:

an analytical modeling component that defines analytical relationships between the plurality of model parameters using a plurality of analytical relations, wherein the analytical modeling component uses the plurality of analytical relations to identify which of the plurality of model parameters are known and which are unknown, and solves for the identified unknown model parameter(s); and

an analytics taxonomy in which at least some of the plurality of analytical relations are taxonomized into a corresponding one of a plurality of related analytics categories.

2. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the one or more computer-readable media is/or physical memory and/or storage media.

3. The computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein at least some of the plurality of relations are equations.

4. The computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein at least some of the plurality of relations are constraints.

5. The computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein at least some of the plurality of relations are rules.

6. The computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein the plurality of components further comprises:

a data source that is a source for a plurality of data items; and

a data-model binding component configured to bind portions of the plurality of data items to corresponding model parameters of the plurality of model parameters.

7. The computer program product in accordance with claim 6, wherein the plurality of components further comprises:

a data taxonomy in which at least some of the plurality of data items are taxonomized into a corresponding one of a plurality of related data categories.

8. The computer program product in accordance with claim 7, wherein the plurality of components further comprises:

a view components repository that is capable of containing a plurality of heterogenic view components, each corresponding to a visual item that may be displayed, and at least some of which being parameterized;

a model-visual binding component configured to bind one or more portions of the plurality of model parameter values to parameter(s) of at least one of the plurality of parameterized view components contained within the view components repository

a view composition module configured to formulate instructions for rendering a view that contains at least some of the visual items corresponding to the plurality of heterogenic view components.

9. The computer program product in accordance with claim 8, the plurality of components further comprising:

a view component taxonomy in which at least some of the plurality of view components items are taxonomized into a corresponding one of a plurality of related view components categories.

10. The computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein the plurality of components further comprises:

a view components repository that is capable of containing a plurality of heterogenic view components, each corresponding to a visual item that may be displayed, and at least some of which being parameterized;

a model-visual binding component configured to bind one or more portions of the plurality of model parameter values to parameter(s) of at least one of the plurality of parameterized view components contained within the view components repository; and

a view composition module configured to formulate instructions for rendering a view that contains at least some of the visual items corresponding to the plurality of heterogenic view components.

11. The computer program product in accordance with claim 10, the plurality of components further comprising:

a view component taxonomy in which at least some of the plurality of view components items are taxonomized into a corresponding one of a plurality of related view components categories.

12. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, wherein for at least some of the visual items that are to be rendered in the view, view component logic associated with the corresponding view component dictates the manner in which the rendering of the visual item occurs such that the rendering is dependent upon one or more parameters of the corresponding view component.

13. A method for navigating analytics comprising:

an act of accessing an analytical modeling component that defines analytical relationships between the plurality of model parameters using a plurality of analytical relations, wherein the analytical modeling component uses the plurality of analytical relations to identify which of the plurality of model parameters are known and which are unknown, and solves for the identified unknown model parameter(s);

an act of accessing an analytics taxonomy in which at least some of the plurality of analytical relations are taxonomized into a corresponding one of a plurality of related analytics categories; and

an act of navigating through the analytics taxonomy.

14. A method in accordance with claim 13, further comprising:

an act of using the navigation through the analytics taxonomy in order to solve for the identified unknown model parameter(s).

15. A method in accordance with claim 13, wherein the act of navigating through the analytics taxonomy is performed by a human with the aid of a computing system.

16. A method in accordance with claim 13, wherein the act of navigating through the analytics taxonomy is performed by a computing system without the contemporaneous assistance of a human being.

17. A method in accordance with claim 13, wherein the act of navigating through the analytics taxonomy is performed for purposes of merging analytics.

18. A computer program product comprising one or more physical computer-readable media having thereon one or more computer-executable instruction(s) that, when executed by one or more processors of the computing system, cause the computing system to generate an analytics taxonomy for an analytical model that includes the following plurality of components:

an analytical modeling component that defines analytical relationships between the plurality of model parameters using a plurality of analytical relations, wherein the analytical modeling component uses the plurality of analytical relations to identify which of the plurality of model parameters are known and which are unknown, and solves for the identified unknown model parameter(s);

a data source that is a source for a plurality of data items;

a data-model binding component configured to bind portions of the plurality of data items to corresponding model parameters of the plurality of model parameters.

a view components repository that is capable of containing a plurality of heterogenic view components, each corresponding to a visual item that may be displayed, and at least some of which being parameterized;

a model-visual binding component configured to bind one or more portions of the plurality of model parameter values to parameter(s) of at least one of the plurality of parameterized view components contained within the view components repository; and

a taxonomy component configured to maintain a data taxonomy, an analytics taxonomy, and a view components taxonomy, the data taxonomy in which at least some of the plurality of data items are taxonomized into a corresponding one of a plurality of related data categories, an analytics taxonomy in which at least some of the plurality of analytical relations are taxonomized into a corresponding one of a plurality of related analytics categories, and a view component taxonomy in which at least some of the plurality of view components items are taxonomized into a corresponding one of a plurality of related view components categories.

19. The computer program product in accordance with claim 18, wherein the one or more computer-readable media is/or physical memory and/or storage media.

20. The computer program product in accordance with claim 19, wherein the view composition module configured to formulate instructions for rendering a view that contains at least some of the visual items corresponding to the plurality of heterogenic view components.