SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SPATIOTEMPORAL VISUALIZATIONS

• US 20180164992A1
• Filed: 12/09/2016
• Published: 06/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Prajapati, Rishi
• Granted Patent: US 10,552,024 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

Techniques of providing spatiotemporal visualizations are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a spatiotemporal visualization of at least a portion of data of a dataset is generated and displayed to a user in a graphical user interface of a device. An embodiment comprises receiving data comprising a plurality of measures and a plurality of dimensions; calculating a minimum and maximum magnitude of velocity for measures in the data; defining intervals in a range defined by the minimum and maximum velocity; selecting configuration settings for rendering a spatiotemporal visualization corresponding to the data and the intervals; generating the spatiotemporal visualization, the spatiotemporal visualization comprising a graphical representation of at least a portion of data comprising at least one of the measures and at least one of the dimensions over the defined intervals; and causing display of: the spatiotemporal visualization, and a plurality of selectable interaction controls corresponding to the spatiotemporal visualization.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more hardware processors; and

a computer-readable medium coupled with the one or more hardware processors, the computer-readable medium comprising instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to perform operations comprising;

receiving at least a portion of data of a dataset, the dataset comprising a plurality of measures and a plurality of dimensions;

calculating a minimum and maximum magnitude of velocity for measures in the at least a portion of data of the dataset;

defining intervals in a range defined by the calculated minimum and maximum velocity;

selecting configuration settings for rendering a spatiotemporal visualization corresponding to the at least a portion of data of the dataset and the defined intervals;

generating the spatiotemporal visualization to be displayed to a user in a graphical user interface of a device, the spatiotemporal visualization comprising a graphical representation of the at least a portion of data, the at least a portion of data comprising at least one of the plurality of measures and at least one of the plurality of dimensions over the defined intervals; and

causing display, in the graphical user interface of the device, of the spatiotemporal visualization and a plurality of selectable interaction controls corresponding to the spatiotemporal visualization.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectable interaction controls comprise controls for modifying the spatiotemporal visualization based on selecting one or more of:

an interval of the defined intervals;

a measure of the plurality of measures;

a movable marker for an inflection point of velocity for the at least one of the plurality of measures;

a reference dimension of the plurality of dimensions; and

a chart type of the spatiotemporal visualization.

3. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

causing display, in the graphical user interface of the device, the plurality of selectable interaction controls concurrently with the spatiotemporal visualization, the spatiotemporal visualization being caused to be displayed in a first dedicated section of the graphical user interface for spatiotemporal visualizations, the plurality of selectable interaction controls being caused to be displayed in a second dedicated section of the graphical user interface.

4. The system of claim 2, the operations further comprising:

detecting user interaction with one or more of the plurality of selectable interaction controls;

providing one or more selections corresponding to the detected user interaction with the one or more of the selectable interaction controls to the calculation engine;

re-generating the spatiotemporal visualization based on the one or more selections; and

causing display, in the graphical user interface, the re-generated spatiotemporal visualization in the first dedicated section of the graphical user interface for spatiotemporal visualizations.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of measures comprises numeric values corresponding to performance metrics.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of dimensions comprise a target value for the at least one of the plurality of measures.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the intervals in the range comprise time intervals corresponding to one or more of hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, and years.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the spatiotemporal visualization comprises a light streak chart.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the spatiotemporal visualization comprises a brick chart.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the spatiotemporal visualization comprises a donut chart.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a calculation engine configured to perform the receiving, the calculating, the defining, the selecting, and the generating; and

a renderer configured to perform the causing display of the spatiotemporal visualization and the plurality of selectable interaction controls.

12. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving at least a portion of data of a dataset, the dataset comprising a plurality of measures and a plurality of dimensions;

calculating a minimum and maximum magnitude of velocity for measures in the at least a portion of data of the dataset;

defining intervals in a range defined by the calculated minimum and maximum velocity;

selecting configuration settings for rendering a spatiotemporal visualization corresponding to the at least a portion of data of the dataset and the defined intervals;

generating the spatiotemporal visualization to be displayed to a user in a graphical user interface of a device, the spatiotemporal visualization comprising a graphical representation of the at least a portion of data, the at least a portion of data comprising at least one of the plurality of measures and at least one of the plurality of dimensions over the defined intervals; and

causing display, in the graphical user interface of the device, of the spatiotemporal visualization and a plurality of selectable interaction controls corresponding to the spatiotemporal visualization.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the spatiotemporal visualization comprises a light streak chart.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

causing display, in the graphical user interface of the device, the plurality of selectable interaction controls concurrently with the spatiotemporal visualization, the spatiotemporal visualization being caused to be displayed in a first dedicated section of the graphical user interface for spatiotemporal visualizations, the plurality of selectable interaction controls being caused to be displayed in a second dedicated section of the graphical user interface.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

detecting user interaction with one or more of the plurality of selectable interaction controls;

determining one or more selections corresponding to the detected user interaction with the one or more of the selectable interaction controls;

modifying the spatiotemporal visualization based on the one or more selections; and

causing display, in the graphical user interface, the modified spatiotemporal visualization in the first dedicated section of the graphical user interface for spatiotemporal visualizations.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the one or more selections include selection of temporal markers corresponding to inflection points for the at least one of the plurality of measures; and

the modifying comprises augmenting the spatiotemporal visualization to include projections from the inflection points to another one of the plurality of measures.

17. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, tangibly embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving at least a portion of data of a dataset, the dataset comprising a plurality of measures and a plurality of dimensions;

calculating a minimum and maximum magnitude of velocity for measures in the at least a portion of data of the dataset;

defining intervals in a range defined by the calculated minimum and maximum velocity;

selecting configuration settings for rendering a spatiotemporal visualization corresponding to the at least a portion of data of the dataset and the defined intervals;

generating the spatiotemporal visualization to be displayed to a user in a graphical user interface of a device, the spatiotemporal visualization comprising a graphical representation of the at least a portion of data, the at least a portion of data comprising at least one of the plurality of measures and at least one of the plurality of dimensions over the defined intervals;

causing display, in the graphical user interface of the device;

the spatiotemporal visualization; and

a plurality of selectable interaction controls corresponding to the spatiotemporal visualization.

18. The storage medium of claim 17, the operations further comprising:

detecting user interaction with one or more of the plurality of selectable interaction controls;

determining one or more selections corresponding to the detected user interaction with the one or more of the selectable interaction controls;

modifying the spatiotemporal visualization based on the one or more selections; and

causing display, in the graphical user interface of the device, the re-generated spatiotemporal visualization.

19. The storage medium of claim 17, wherein the plurality of dimensions comprise a goal for the at least one of the plurality of measures, the goal corresponding to a planning model.

20. The storage medium of claim 19, wherein:

the defined intervals comprise future time intervals in the planning model; and

the plurality of measures comprises numeric values corresponding to predicted performance metrics in the future time intervals.