SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEREST-DRIVEN DATA VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS UTILIZING VISUALIZATION IMAGE DATA AND TRELLISED VISUALIZATIONS

• US 20190005104A1
• Filed: 02/23/2018
• Published: 01/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Workday Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Workday Incorporated
• Inventors: Prabhu, Prithvi, Mulholland, James, Brown, Hans-Frederick, Werther, Benjamin Mark, Beyer, Kevin Scott, Eshleman, John Glenn
• Granted Patent: US 10,817,534 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Systems and methods for interest-driven data visualization systems are illustrated. The system includes a processor and a memory configured to store an interest-driven data visualization application. The application configures the processor to obtain reporting data including a plurality of datasets from an interest-driven business intelligence server system; generate visualization rendering data for the datasets based on associations between visualization metadata and the datasets; and generate visualization image data based on the visualization rendering data. The visualization image data is displayable using and includes visual representations of at least a portion of the reporting data. Pieces of the visualization image data correspond to master and slave visualizations. The slave visualization is related to the master visualization such that input data associated with the master visualization is mapped to the slave visualization and at least one piece of input data associated with the slave visualization is not mapped to the master visualization.

Claims

1. An interest-driven data visualization system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory connected to the processor and configured to store an interest-driven data visualization application;

wherein the interest-driven data visualization application configures the processor to;

obtain reporting data from an interest-driven business intelligence server system, the reporting data including a plurality of datasets;

generate visualization rendering data for the plurality of datasets based on associations between visualization metadata and the plurality of datasets; and

generate visualization image data based on the visualization rendering data and the plurality of datasets, where the visualization image data is configured to be displayed using a display device and comprises visual representations of at least a portion of the reporting data, at least one piece of visualization image data corresponding to a master visualization, at least another piece of visualization image data corresponding to a slave visualization, and wherein the slave visualization has a relationship with the master visualization such that each piece of input data associated with the master visualization is mapped to the slave visualization and such that at least one piece of the input data associated with the slave visualization is not mapped to the master visualization.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the interest-driven data visualization system further comprises a display device connected to the processor; and

the interest-driven data visualization application further configures the processor to display the generated visualization image data using the display device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application further configures the processor to generate visualization image data by:

associating the visualization metadata with the reporting data, where the visualization metadata describes at least one graphical primitive associated with at least one piece of reporting data; and

wherein the processor displays the generated visualization image data by;

rendering the visualization image data using the visualization rendering data and the reporting data.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the interest-driven data visualization further comprises an input device connected to the processor and configured to obtain the input data;

and the master visualization is identified by the input data.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the each piece of input data associated with the master visualization and such the at least one piece of the input data associated with the slave visualization are obtained by the input device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the interest-driven data visualization further configures the processor to obtain the generated image visualization metadata from an interest-driven business intelligence server system.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application configures the processor to receive aggregate data metadata from the interest-driven business intelligence server system, where the aggregate data metadata includes time estimation data describing a delay associated with generating supplemental aggregate data using source data generated based on time taken to generate at least a portion of aggregated data corresponding to the reporting data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application configures the processor to:

generate supplemental data retrieval job data based on data retrieval job data and received aggregate data;

transmit the supplemental data retrieval job data to the interest-driven business intelligence server system;

receive supplemental aggregate data from the interest-driven business intelligence server system;

update at least one piece of the reporting data using the supplemental aggregate data, the data description metadata, and the reporting data metadata; and

generate updated visualization image data based on the updated reporting data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application configures the processor to:

generate a report of at least a portion of the reporting data;

capture a visualization snapshot using the report, where the visualization snapshot includes the portion of the reporting data, reporting data requirements, and display data metadata; and

store the visualization snapshot within the memory.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application further configures the processor to transmit the visualization snapshot to a remote system separate from the interest-driven data visualization system, where the remote system is configured to display the visualization snapshot without communicating with the interest-driven business intelligence server system.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application further configures the processor to create a trellised visualization utilizing the visualization image data for each of the datasets.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application further configures the processor to:

obtain the input data, the input data describing an interaction with the master visualization;

render updated master visualization image data for the master visualization based on the input data, the updated master visualization image data corresponding to the master visualization;

map the input data to the slave visualization; and

render updated slave visualization image data for the slave visualization.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising an input device connected to the processor and configured to obtain input data and wherein the interest-driven data visualization application further configures the processor to identify a master visualization and a slave visualization using the input data.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a display device connected to the processor.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application further configures the processor to display the generated visualization image data using the display device.

16. A method for visualizing reporting data, comprising:

obtaining reporting data from an interest-driven business intelligence server system, the reporting data including a plurality of datasets;

generating, using a processor, visualization rendering data for the plurality of datasets based on associations between visualization metadata and the plurality of datasets; and

generating visualization image data based on the visualization rendering data and the plurality of datasets, where the visualization image data is configured to be displayed using a display device and comprises visual representations of at least a portion of the reporting data, at least one piece of visualization image data corresponding to a master visualization, at least another piece of visualization image data corresponding to a slave visualization, and wherein the slave visualization has a relationship with the master visualization such that each piece of input data associated with the master visualization is mapped to the slave visualization and such that at least one piece of the input data associated with the slave visualization is not mapped to the master visualization.

17. A computer program product for visualizing reporting data, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

obtaining reporting data from an interest-driven business intelligence server system, the reporting data including a plurality of datasets;

generating, using a processor, visualization rendering data for the plurality of datasets based on associations between visualization metadata and the plurality of datasets;

generating visualization image data based on the visualization rendering data and the plurality of datasets, where the visualization image data is configured to be displayed using a display device and comprises visual representations of at least a portion of the reporting data, at least one piece of visualization image data corresponding to a master visualization, at least another piece of visualization image data corresponding to a slave visualization, and wherein the slave visualization has a relationship with the master visualization such that each piece of input data associated with the master visualization is mapped to the slave visualization and such that at least one piece of the input data associated with the slave visualization is not mapped to the master visualization.