VISUALIZATION SUGGESTIONS

• US 20160012129A1
• Filed: 07/14/2014
• Published: 01/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Rampson, Benjamin Edward, Welton, Nickolas Dwayne, Gross, Christopher John, Hanumara, Poornima, Carlson, Andrew Grey
• Application Number:
  US14/330,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20160012129A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/18 of spreadsheets form-filling G06F40/174

Abstract

Technologies are described herein for providing visualization suggestions. In order to provide a visualization suggestion, visualized data may be received. The visualized data may have profile data associated therewith and have at least one data connection to a data source associated therewith. Prior visualization information related to the profile data or the data connection may then be identified such that a visualization suggestion based on the identified prior visualization information can be determined. The visualization suggestion may then be returned to a client.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for providing visualization suggestions, the method comprising:

receiving visualized data, the visualized data having profile data associated therewith and having at least one data connection to a data source associated therewith;

identifying prior visualization information related to at least one of the profile data and the at least one data connection;

determining a visualization suggestion based on the identified prior visualization information; and

providing the visualization suggestion.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the profile data comprises metadata describing identity data or contextual information.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the prior visualization information comprises at least one of prior formatting information, prior style information, prior layout information, prior summarization information, or prior graphical element information.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the visualization suggestion comprises:

determining that at least a portion of the profile data is associated with a portion of the prior visualization information; and

generating the visualization suggestion based, at least in part, on the portion of the prior visualization information.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the visualization suggestion comprises:

determining that at least a portion of the prior visualization information includes a data connection related to the at least one data connection; and

generating the visualization suggestion to include a structural or graphical element of the prior visualization information associated with the related data connection.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the visualization suggestion comprises:

determining that a portion of the prior visualization information is associated with the profile data;

determining that the portion of the prior visualization information includes a data connection related to the at least one data connection; and

generating the visualization suggestion to include a structural or graphical element of the prior visualization information associated with the related data connection.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising providing the visualization suggestion for display through a user interface (UI) element.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the UI element comprises:

a ghost rendering or inline rendering representative of the size, format, and style of the visualization suggestion;

or

a selectable graphic rendering representative of the visualization suggestion.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of the visualization suggestion;

applying the visualization suggestion to the visualized data;

determining an additional visualization suggestion for the visualized data based on the applied visualization suggestion, the at least one data connection, and the profile data; and

providing the additional visualization suggestion.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the received visualized data includes a plurality of data connections to a plurality of data sources, and wherein the method further comprises:

identifying prior visualization information related to the plurality of data connections;

determining a plurality of visualization suggestions based on the identified prior visualization information; and

providing the plurality of visualization suggestions.

11. A data processing system configured to provide visualization suggestions, the system comprising:

at least one computer executing a visualization suggestion service layer configured to

receive visualized data from a client computer, the visualized data having at least one data connection to a data source associated therewith,

identify prior visualization information related to the at least one data connection,

determine a visualization suggestion based on the identified prior visualization information, and

provide the visualization suggestion.

12. The data processing system of claim 11, wherein the at least one data connection comprises a query statement from the received visualized data.

13. The data processing system of claim 11, wherein determining the visualization suggestion comprises:

determining that a portion of the prior visualization information includes a data connection related to the at least one data connection; and

generating the visualization suggestion based, at least in part, on the portion of the prior visualization information.

14. The data processing system of claim 11, wherein the prior visualization information comprises at least one of prior formatting information, prior style information, prior layout information, prior summarization information, or prior graphical element information.

15. The data processing system of claim 11, wherein receiving the visualized data comprises receiving a query statement associated with the visualized data, and wherein determining the visualization suggestion comprises:

determining that a portion of the prior visualization information includes a query statement matching the received query statement; and

generating the visualization suggestion based, at least in part, on the portion of the prior visualization information.

16. The data processing system of claim 11, wherein the visualization suggestion service layer is further configured to:

receive a selection of the visualization suggestion;

apply the visualization suggestion to the visualized data;

determine an additional visualization suggestion for the visualized data based on the applied visualization suggestion and the at least one data connection; and

provide the additional visualization suggestion.

17. A computer-implemented method for providing visualization suggestions, the method comprising:

storing prior visualization information, the prior visualization information comprising profile data and visualizations for a plurality of data connections;

determining at least one visualization suggestion for visualized data, wherein the visualization suggestion comprises a selectable graphical suggestion for inclusion in the visualized data matched according to content of the visualized data and the prior visualization information; and

providing the at least one visualization suggestion to a client device configured to graphically display the visualization suggestion through a user-interface (UI) configured to receive selections of individual visualization suggestions of displayed visualization suggestions.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein the profile data comprises metadata describing identity data or contextual information for a client computer implementing at least one of the plurality of data connections.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein the prior visualization information further comprises at least one of prior formatting information, prior style information, prior layout information, prior summarization information, or prior graphical element information.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein determining the visualization suggestion comprises:

determining that at least a portion of the prior visualization information is associated with the visualized data; and

generating the visualization suggestion based, at least in part, on the portion of the prior visualization information.