Data charting
First Claim
1. A method of displaying clustered data points within a data set comprising the steps of:
- identifying a plurality of clustered sets of data points within a data set, each of said data sets comprising a plurality of data points;
determining a respective data range segment for each of said plurality of clustered sets of data points, each data range segment having a boundary and a scale interval, the scale interval corresponding to a scale at which the respective data range segment is displayed, wherein the scale interval for one of said data range segments is modifiable to differ from the scale intervals of one or more of other of said data range segments; and
displaying the data points in each segment such that each segment is mutually distinguishable.
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Abstract
A method of displaying clustered data points in detail and in context within a data set. The method includes the step of identifying one or more clustered sets of data points within a data set. The data set includes a plurality of data points. The method also includes the steps of determining a respective data range segment for each cluster of data points, where each data range segment has a boundary and a scale interval, and displaying the data points in each segment such that each segment is mutually distinguishable. Where two or more data range segments are determined, the scale interval value for one of the data range segments is modifiable to differ from one or more of the other data range segments.
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14 Claims
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1. A method of displaying clustered data points within a data set comprising the steps of:
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identifying a plurality of clustered sets of data points within a data set, each of said data sets comprising a plurality of data points;
determining a respective data range segment for each of said plurality of clustered sets of data points, each data range segment having a boundary and a scale interval, the scale interval corresponding to a scale at which the respective data range segment is displayed, wherein the scale interval for one of said data range segments is modifiable to differ from the scale intervals of one or more of other of said data range segments; and
displaying the data points in each segment such that each segment is mutually distinguishable. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
applying a line clipping algorithm to said lines, to prevent lines crossing data range segment boundaries.
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14. A computer system comprising a processing unit connected to one or more user input devices, a monitor and a data store, said system comprising a computer software component responsive to user interaction via at least one of said input devices and receptive to a data set supplied from said data store, said software component being adapted to display said data points from said data set on said monitor according to a method comprising the steps of:
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identifying one or more clustered sets of data points within a data set, said data set comprising a plurality of data points;
determining a respective data range segment for each of said plurality of clustered sets of data points, each data range segment having a boundary and a scale interval, the scale interval corresponding to a scale at which the respective data range segment is displayed, wherein the scale interval for one of said data range segments is modifiable to differ from the scale intervals of one or more of other of said data range segments; and
displaying the data points in each segment such that each segment is mutually distinguishable.
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