Visually representing series data sets in accordance with importance values
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1. A method, comprising:
- determining, by a computer, an importance value for each time series data set from among a plurality of time series data sets, wherein the importance value for each time series data set is calculated based on content of at least a portion of the corresponding time series data set;
visually representing, on a display, said time series data sets in accordance with the corresponding calculated importance values, wherein visually representing said time series data sets in accordance with the corresponding calculated importance values comprises allocating areas on the display to the time series data sets in accordance with the calculated importance values; and
aggregating corresponding groups of said calculated importance values into respective aggregated importance values, wherein each of the aggregated importance values corresponds to a respective group of the plurality of time series data sets,wherein visually representing each of said time series data sets is further based on the aggregated importance values.
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Abstract
A method comprises determining an importance value for each series data set among a plurality of series data sets and visually representing each of the series data sets in accordance with the importance values.
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37 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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determining, by a computer, an importance value for each time series data set from among a plurality of time series data sets, wherein the importance value for each time series data set is calculated based on content of at least a portion of the corresponding time series data set; visually representing, on a display, said time series data sets in accordance with the corresponding calculated importance values, wherein visually representing said time series data sets in accordance with the corresponding calculated importance values comprises allocating areas on the display to the time series data sets in accordance with the calculated importance values; and aggregating corresponding groups of said calculated importance values into respective aggregated importance values, wherein each of the aggregated importance values corresponds to a respective group of the plurality of time series data sets, wherein visually representing each of said time series data sets is further based on the aggregated importance values. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system, comprising:
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a display; a processor; storage accessible by said processor, said storage containing software that upon execution on the processor causes said processor to determine an importance value for each series data set from among a plurality of series data sets and to visually represent, in the display, each of said series data sets in corresponding areas of a graphical layout, wherein the areas have characteristics based on the importance values, wherein the areas are contained in larger areas representing groups of the series data sets, and wherein the larger areas have characteristics based on aggregations of the importance values; wherein said software upon execution further causes said processor to compute the aggregations of said importance values, wherein computing the aggregations is according to a technique selected from the group consisting of;
calculating a value that is a function of a maximum of at least some importance values, calculating a value that is a function of a weighted average of all of said at least some importance values, calculating an average of said at least some of said importance values, and summing together said at least some of said importance values. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system, comprising:
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a display; a processor; storage accessible by said processor, said storage containing software that upon execution on the processor causes said processor to determine an importance value for each series data set from among a plurality of series data sets and to visually represent, in the display, each of said series data sets in corresponding areas of a graphical layout, wherein the areas have characteristics based on the importance values, wherein the areas are contained in larger areas representing groups of the series data sets, and wherein the larger areas have characteristics based on aggregations of the importance values; wherein the software upon execution permits choosing whether the areas representing respective series data sets are all of the same size but positioned on the display in accordance with the importance values or whether at least one of the areas representing respective series data sets are of a different size in accordance with the importance values. - View Dependent Claims (26)
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27. A system, comprising:
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a display; a processor; storage accessible by said processor, said storage containing software that upon execution on the processor causes said processor to determine an importance value for each series data set from among a plurality of series data sets and to visually represent, in the display, each of said series data sets in corresponding areas of a graphical layout, wherein the areas have characteristics based on the importance values, wherein the areas are contained in larger areas representing groups of the series data sets, and wherein the larger areas have characteristics based on aggregations of the importance values; wherein said software upon execution causes said processor to compute a variability value that is indicative of a variability associated with at least some of said importance values, wherein said software upon execution causes said processor to use said variability value to determine how to visually represent each of the series data sets.
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28. A processor-accessible storage medium containing instructions, which when executed by a processor, effect visually representing time series data sets, comprising:
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determining an importance value for each time series data set from among a plurality of time series data sets, wherein the importance value for each time series data set is calculated based on content of at least a portion of the corresponding time series data set; aggregating corresponding groups of said calculated importance values into respective aggregated importance values, wherein each of the aggregated importance values corresponds to a respective group of the plurality of time series data sets; visually representing said time series data sets based on the corresponding calculated importance values and aggregated importance values, wherein visually representing said series data sets in accordance with the corresponding calculated importance values comprises allocating areas on a display to the time series data sets in accordance with the calculated importance values. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method, comprising:
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determining, by a computer, an importance value for each time series data set from among a plurality of time series data sets, wherein the importance value for each time series data set is calculated based on content of at least a portion of the corresponding time series data set; aggregating corresponding groups of said calculated importance values into respective aggregated importance values, wherein each of the aggregated importance values corresponds to a respective group of the plurality of time series data sets; associating, by the computer, each time series data set with a computed graphic; positioning the graphics on a display based on the corresponding calculated importance values for the time series data sets and the corresponding aggregated importance values; and visually representing, on the display, each of said time series data sets in each corresponding graphic. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37)
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