PARALLEL COORDINATE CHARTS FOR FLOW EXPLORATION
First Claim
1. A method for visualizing a plurality of electronic communication flows comprising:
- displaying a coordinate parallel chart representing a plurality of attributes as evenly spaced parallel lines; and
representing a plurality of flows in the chart, wherein each flow intersects each line of the evenly spaced parallel lines at a point representing a respective value associated with the flow for that attribute.
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Abstract
Presenting data flows in a parallel coordinate chart. The parallel coordinate chart allows a user to search for data flows. Exploration occurs by providing visualization of a searched data flow(s) to ascertain the typical from the atypical flow. Each data flow represented in a parallel coordinate chart is measured against various attributes represented among parallel lines. A single chart could be used to visualize thousands of flows at once. Overlaying data flows in on top of each other in the parallel coordinate chart can reveal a concentration of flows. The concentration of flows allows a user to visualize, among other things, the relationship between the flows and observe typical and atypical flows. Additionally the user can filter specific dimensions (to observe joint distributions between a pair of dimensions—combined probabilities of what is occurring between two dimensions) or a specific window of time.
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1. A method for visualizing a plurality of electronic communication flows comprising:
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displaying a coordinate parallel chart representing a plurality of attributes as evenly spaced parallel lines; and representing a plurality of flows in the chart, wherein each flow intersects each line of the evenly spaced parallel lines at a point representing a respective value associated with the flow for that attribute. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for representing a plurality of flows together in a chart in order to compare and identify anomalous characteristics of a subset of the plurality of flows, the system comprising:
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a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing processor executable instructions, the instructions effective to cause the processor to; search data analyzed by an analytics engine configured to analyze flow data describing data flows to identify data flows matching search criteria; display a coordinate parallel chart representing a plurality of attributes as evenly spaced parallel lines; and represent a plurality of flows that match the search criteria in the chart, wherein each flow intersects each line of the evenly spaced parallel lines at a point representing a respective value associated with the flow for that attribute. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, the instructions effective to cause the processor to:
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receive a selection of the plurality of attributes to represent in a parallel coordinate chart; display a coordinate parallel chart representing the selected plurality of attributes as evenly spaced parallel lines; and represent a plurality of flows in the chart, wherein each flow intersects each line of the evenly spaced parallel lines at a point representing a respective value associated with the flow for that attribute. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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