TRANSFORMING VISUALIZED DATA THROUGH VISUAL ANALYTICS BASED ON INTERACTIVITY

• US 20140327608A1
• Filed: 05/06/2013
• Published: 11/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Tullis, Steve, Albert, Uhl, Gustafson, David, Wilson, Aaron Lamar
• Granted Patent: US 9,377,864 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services

Abstract

A data visualization application transforms visualized data through visual analytics. A detected gesture and associated visualization are processed through a visual analytics engine of the application. The visual analytics engine determines attributes for a new visualization based on the contextual information of the gesture and the visualization. The analytics engine dynamically builds an action based on the attributes. Execution of the action generates the new visualization which is rendered for presentation.

Claims

1. A method executed on a computing device for transforming visualized data through a visual analytics engine based on interactivity, the method comprising:

displaying a visualization;

detecting a gesture associated with the visualization;

processing the gesture and the visualization to determine one or more attributes for a new visualization;

generating the new visualization based on the one or more attributes; and

presenting the new visualization.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a contextual information associated with the gesture and the visualization based on at least one from a set of;

prior visualizations, user attributes, peer usage, organization rules, and historical information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

evaluating the contextual information to determine an action including one of;

a combination, a split, an expansion, a reduction action.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

dynamically executing the action based on the contextual information.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining one or more attributes of the new visualization based on the contextual information.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

including at least one of;

a style, a format, a dimensionality, and a type in the attributes of the new visualization.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

integrating the attributes of the new visualization in the action.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

executing the action to generate the new visualization.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

assigning a new data type to underlying data associated with the new visualization based on types of underlying data selected on the visualization.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting a default type as one of the attributes based on a type of the visualization.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

comparing a number of visualization elements of the new visualization to a predetermined visual limit value; and

replacing the default type with another type in response to detecting the number of the visualization elements exceeding the predetermined visual limit value.

12. A computing device for transforming visualized data through a visual analytics engine based on interactivity, the computing device comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a data visualization application in conjunction with the instructions stored in the memory, wherein the application is configured to;

display a visualization;

detect a gesture associated with the visualization;

determine a contextual information associated with the gesture and the visualization based on at least one from a set of;

prior visualizations, user attributes, peer usage, organization rules, and historical information;

evaluate the contextual information to determine an action including one of;

a combination, a split, an expansion, a reduction action;

dynamically execute the action based on the contextual information;

determine one or more attributes of a new visualization based on the contextual information;

integrate the attributes of the new visualization in the action;

execute the action to generate the new visualization; and

render the new visualization.

13. The computing device of claim 12, wherein the application is further configured to:

detect a concurrent second gesture on a second visualization converging with the gesture to evaluate the contextual information to a combine action.

14. The computing device of claim 12, wherein the application is further configured to:

detect an asynchronous second gesture on a second visualization converging with the gesture to evaluate the contextual information to a combine action.

15. The computing device of claim 12, wherein the application is further configured to:

detect a second gesture on a second visualization displayed on a second screen, to evaluate the contextual information to a combine action.

16. The computing device of claim 12, wherein the application is further configured to:

select a default screen as a screen in focus to render the new visualization in an environment including a plurality of screens.

17. A computer-readable memory device with instructions stored thereon for transforming visualized data through a visual analytics engine based on interactivity, the instructions comprising:

displaying a visualization;

detecting a gesture associated with the visualization;

determining a contextual information associated with the gesture and the visualization based on at least one from a set of;

prior visualizations, user attributes, peer usage, organization rules, and historical information;

evaluating the contextual information to determine an action including one of;

a combination, a split, an expansion, a reduction action;

dynamically executing the action based on the contextual information;

determining one or more attributes of a new visualization based on the contextual information;

integrating the attributes of the new visualization in the action;

executing the action to generate the new visualization;

selecting a default screen as a screen in focus to render the new visualization in an environment including a plurality of screens; and

rendering the new visualization in the default screen to present the new visualization.

18. The computer-readable memory device of claim 17, wherein the instructions further comprise:

detecting the gesture on a portion of the visualization displaying an element of the visualization.

19. The computer-readable memory device of claim 17, wherein the instructions further comprise:

duplicating attributes of the visualization while dynamically executing the action.

20. The computer-readable memory device of claim 18, wherein the instructions further comprise:

generating the new visualization by updating the visualization in response to duplicating attributes of the visualization in the action.