Displaying a visualization of a portion of a rolling horizon time series

• US 9,195,951 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2011
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Aydin, Burcu, Guler, Kemal, Sayal, Mehmet Oguz, Kayis, Enis
• Primary Examiner(s): LEGGETT, ANDREA C.
• Application Number:
  US13/284,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20130111389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,488 Days
• Field of Search: 715/772
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

A method performed by a processing system displays a graph of a portion of a rolling horizon time series corresponding to a realization of a realization time series adjacent to a graph of the realization time series.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting, by a system including a processor, a first user input selecting a first realization at a given time period of a realization time series including a plurality of realizations at respective time periods displayed in a first visualization; and

in response to detecting the first user input, displaying, a second visualization of a first portion of a first rolling horizon time series corresponding to the first realization, the second visualization displayed adjacent to the first visualization.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first portion of the first rolling horizon time series includes a set of forecasts corresponding to the first realization.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first portion of the first rolling horizon time series includes a forecast time series corresponding to the first realization.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein each forecast in the forecast time series and the first realization correspond to different time periods.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the first user input includes positioning a pointer over an area in the first visualization that is in proximity to the given time period on an axis corresponding to the first realization.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the first user input includes positioning a pointer over an area in the first visualization that is in proximity to the first realization on the first visualization.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

subsequent to detecting the first user input, detecting a second user input selecting a second realization at a second time period of the realization time series displayed in the first visualization; and

in response to detecting the second user input, displaying a third visualization of a second portion of the first rolling horizon time series corresponding to the second realization, the third visualization displayed adjacent to the first visualization.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying a third visualization of a portion of a second rolling horizon time series corresponding to the first realization adjacent to the first visualization in response to detecting the first user input.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the second visualization includes forecast data values for a variable at respective time periods that are prior to the given time period but not after the given time period, and wherein the first realization is a realized value of the variable.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the second visualization includes forecast data values for a variable at respective time periods that are after the given time period but not prior to the given time period, and wherein the first realization is a realized value of the variable.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising visually highlighting the first realization in the first visualization in response to the first user input.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the first rolling horizon time series includes a plurality of forecast time series, each of the plurality of forecast time series including a particular number of time periods, and wherein the first rolling horizon time series has a number of time periods that is greater than the particular number of time periods.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying a further visualization including different portions of a rolling horizon time series for respective realizations at corresponding time periods in the realization time series, where each of the realizations is graphed along a first axis at a common point on a second axis, and each of the different portions of the rolling horizon time series is represented by respective graphs along the second axis that represents corresponding time offsets from a respective time period of each corresponding realization.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed cause a processing system to:

provide a user interface that allows a user to select a realization at a given time period of a realization time series including a plurality of realizations at respective time periods displayed as a first graph; and

in response to detecting the selecting of the realization, display a portion of a first forecast rolling horizon time series corresponding to the realization as a second graph adjacent to the first graph in the user interface.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 further storing instructions that, when executed cause the processing system to:

display the first graph of the realization time series in the user interface in accordance with an aggregation level of the realization time series selected by the user.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 further storing instructions that, when executed cause the processing system to:

display the first graph of the realization time series in the user interface in accordance with a time granularity of the realization time series selected by the user.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 further storing instructions that, when executed cause the processing system to:

display the portion of the first forecast rolling horizon time series in the user interface as the second graph in accordance with a horizon length selected by the user.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 further storing instructions that, when executed cause the processing system to:

display a portion of a second forecast rolling horizon time series corresponding to the realization as a third graph adjacent to the first graph in the user interface.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 wherein the second graph includes forecast data values for a variable at respective time periods that are prior to the given time period but not after the given time period, and wherein the realization is a realized value of the variable.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 wherein the second graph includes forecast data values for a variable at respective time periods that are after the given time period but not prior to the given time period, and wherein the realization is a realized value of the variable.

21. A system comprising:

at least one processor to;

display a visualization including different portions of a rolling horizon time series for respective realizations at corresponding time periods in a realization time series, where each of the realizations is graphed along a first axis at a common point on a second axis, and the different portions of the rolling horizon time series are represented by respective graphs along the second axis that represents corresponding time offsets from a respective time period of each corresponding realization.

22. The system of claim 21 wherein each of the different portions of the rolling horizon time series includes a respective set of forecasts corresponding to a respective one of the realizations.

23. The system of claim 21 wherein each of the different portions of the rolling horizon time series includes a forecast time series corresponding to a respective one of the realizations.