Measuring and displaying facets in context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells

• US 10,127,303 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2016
• Issued: 11/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Adams, Samuel S., Friedlander, Robert R., Kraemer, James R., Linton, Jeb R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jami, Hares
• Application Number:
  US15/190,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20160299962A1
• Time in Patent Office: 873 Days
• Field of Search: 707705, 707737, 707756, 707755
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/283 Multi-dimensional databases or data warehouses, e.g. MOLAP or ROLAP
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/211 Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/01 Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks

Abstract

A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product measures and displays facets in context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells. Conformed dimensional objects and synthetic context-based objects are parsed into n-tuples. A virtual mass of each parsed object is calculated, in order to define a shape of multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells that are created when data objects that are pulled into each of the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks on a context-based conformed dimensional gravity wells membrane. Data from the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells then populates nodes in a data model. A displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well is dynamically adjusted according to how many parsed synthetic context-based objects are pulled into the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well.

Claims

1. A method of measuring and displaying facets in context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells, the method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, a data stream of non-contextual data objects, wherein each of the non-contextual data objects ambiguously relates to multiple subject-matters;

associating, by one or more processors, one of the non-contextual data objects with a context object to define a synthetic context-based object, wherein the context object is a first facet that provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from the multiple subject-matters, of said one of the non-contextual data objects;

parsing, by one or more processors, the synthetic context-based object into a context-based n-tuple, wherein the context-based n-tuple comprises a pointer to said one of the non-contextual data objects, a probability that a non-contextual data object has been associated with a correct context object, and a weighting factor of importance of the synthetic context-based object;

creating, by one or more processors, multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks on a context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane, wherein each of the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks comprises at least one non-contextual data object and at least one context object, and wherein the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane is a virtual mathematical membrane that is capable of supporting multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells;

calculating, by one or more processors, a virtual mass of a parsed synthetic context-based object, wherein the virtual mass of the parsed synthetic context-based object is derived from a formula of;

P_c(C)×

Wt_c(S),

where P_c(C) is a probability that the non-contextual data object has been associated with a correct context object, and where Wt_c(S) is the weighting factor of importance of the synthetic context-based object;

transmitting, by one or more processors, multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects to the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane;

populating, by one or more processors, each of the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks with the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects to define multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells according to the virtual mass of multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects that are pulled into each of the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks, wherein each of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects is pulled into a particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well in response to values from its n-tuple matching said at least one context object in said particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well; and

storing, by one or more processors, the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well for use with future retrieval of each of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects pulled therein.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dynamically adjusting, by one or more processors, a displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to how many parsed synthetic context-based objects are pulled into the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

further dynamically adjusting, by one or more processors, the displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to a first derivative d′

(PO), where d′

(PO) defines a rate of change of how many of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects are associated with at least one specific context object in the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well, and wherein the rate of change is represented by a change to a depicted size of the specific context object.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

further dynamically adjusting, by one or more processors, the displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to a second derivative d″

(PO), where d″

(PO) defines a rate of change to the depicted size of said at least one specific context object.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

further dynamically adjusting, by one or more processors, the displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to a third derivative d′

″

(PO), where d′

″

(PO) defines a spike to the rate of change to the depicted size of said at least one context object.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, a data stream of non-dimensional data objects;

applying, by one or more processors, a dimension object to one of the non-dimensional data objects to define a conformed dimensional object, wherein the dimension object is a second facet that provides a measurement scale to the non-dimensional data objects;

parsing, by one or more processors, the conformed dimensional object into a dimensional n-tuple, wherein the n-tuple comprises a pointer to said one of the non-dimensional data objects, a probability that said one of the non-dimensional data objects has been associated with a correct dimensional label, a probability that said one of the non-dimensional data objects is uncorrupted, and a weighting factor of importance of the conformed dimensional object;

transmitting, by one or more processors, multiple parsed conformed dimensional objects to the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane;

further populating, by one or more processors, each of the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks with the multiple parsed conformed dimensional objects to further define the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells according to a virtual mass of multiple parsed conformed dimensional objects that are pulled into each of the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks, wherein each of the multiple parsed conformed dimensional objects is pulled into a particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well in response to values from its n-tuple matching said dimension object in said particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well; and

further dynamically adjusting, by one or more processors, a displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to the virtual mass of a parsed conformed dimensional object.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

calculating, by one or more processors, a virtual mass of a parsed conformed dimensional object, wherein the virtual mass of the parsed conformed dimensional object is derived from a formula of;

P_d(C)×

Wt_d(S),

where P_d(C) is a probability that

     1) said one of the non-dimensional data objects has been associated with the correct dimensional label,

     2) said one of the non-dimensional data objects is uncorrupted, and

     3) said one of the non-dimensional data objects has come from a data source whose data has been predetermined to be appropriate for storage in a particular dimensional data gravity well; and

where Wt_d(S) is the weighting factor of importance of the conformed dimensional object.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

graphically displaying, by one or more processors, the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells according to a combined virtual mass of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects and the multiple parsed conformed dimensional objects, wherein a first context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well holds a more virtually massive combination of parsed data objects than a second context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well, and wherein the first context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well extends farther away from the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane than the second context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a particular data object is either a conformed dimensional object or a synthetic context-based object, the method further comprising:

determining, by one or more processors, a likelihood that the particular data object is pulled into an appropriate context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to a Bayesian probability formula of;

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the weighting factor of importance of the synthetic context-based object is based on how important the synthetic context-based object is to a particular project.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by one or more processors, that said one of the non-dimensional data objects is uncorrupted by determining that said one of the non-dimensional data objects is not a fragment of an original data object.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

graphically representing, by one or more processors, said at least one context object on a wall of said particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by one or more processors, an age of each synthetic context-based object that has been pulled into the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well; and

removing, by one or more processors, from the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well any data object that is older than a predetermined age.

14. A computer program product for measuring and displaying facets in context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and executable by one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

receiving a data stream of non-contextual data objects, wherein each of the non-contextual data objects ambiguously relates to multiple subject-matters;

associating one of the non-contextual data objects with a context object to define a synthetic context-based object, wherein the context object is a first facet that provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from the multiple subject-matters, of said one of the non-contextual data objects;

parsing the synthetic context-based object into a context-based n-tuple, wherein the context-based n-tuple comprises a pointer to said one of the non-contextual data objects, a probability that a non-contextual data object has been associated with a correct context object, and a weighting factor of importance of the synthetic context-based object;

creating multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks on a context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane, wherein each of the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks comprises at least one non-contextual data object and at least one context object, and wherein the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane is a virtual mathematical membrane that is capable of supporting multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells;

calculating a virtual mass of a parsed synthetic context-based object, wherein the virtual mass of the parsed synthetic context-based object is derived from a formula of;

P_c(C)×

Wt_c(S),

where P_c(C) is a probability that the non-contextual data object has been associated with a correct context object, and where Wt_c(S) is the weighting factor of importance of the synthetic context-based object;

transmitting multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects to the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane;

populating each of the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks with the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects to define multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells according to the virtual mass of multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects that are pulled into each of the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks, wherein each of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects is pulled into a particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well in response to values from its n-tuple matching said at least one context object in said particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well; and

storing the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well for use with future retrieval of each of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects pulled therein.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising program code that is readable and executable by the processor for:

dynamically adjusting a displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to how many parsed synthetic context-based objects are pulled into the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising program code that is readable and executable by the processor for:

further dynamically adjusting the displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to a first derivative d′

(PO), where d′

(PO) defines a rate of change of how many of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects are associated with at least one specific context object in the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well, and wherein the rate of change is represented by a change to a depicted size of the specific context object.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising program code that is readable and executable by the processor for:

further dynamically adjusting the displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to a second derivative d″

(PO), where d″

(PO) defines a rate of change to the depicted size of said at least one specific context object.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, further comprising program code that is readable and executable by the processor for:

further dynamically adjusting the displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to a third derivative d″

′

(PO), where d″

′

(PO) defines a spike to the rate of change to the depicted size of said at least one context object.

19. A computer system comprising:

a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium;

first program instructions to receive a data stream of non-contextual data objects, wherein each of the non-contextual data objects ambiguously relates to multiple subject-matters;

second program instructions to associate one of the non-contextual data objects with a context object to define a synthetic context-based object, wherein the context object is a first facet that provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from the multiple subject-matters, of said one of the non-contextual data objects;

third program instructions to parse the synthetic context-based object into a context-based n-tuple, wherein the context-based n-tuple comprises a pointer to said one of the non-contextual data objects, a probability that a non-contextual data object has been associated with a correct context object, and a weighting factor of importance of the synthetic context-based object;

fourth program instructions create multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks on a context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane, wherein each of the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks comprises at least one non-contextual data object and at least one context object, and wherein the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane is a virtual mathematical membrane that is capable of supporting multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells;

fifth program instructions to calculate a virtual mass of a parsed synthetic context-based object, wherein the virtual mass of the parsed synthetic context-based object is derived from a formula of;

P_c(C)×

Wt_c(S),

where P_c(C) is a probability that the non-contextual data object has been associated with a correct context object, and where Wt_c(S) is the weighting factor of importance of the synthetic context-based object;

sixth program instructions to transmit multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects to the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane;

seventh program instructions to populate each of the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks with the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects to define multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells according to the virtual mass of multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects that are pulled into each of the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks, wherein each of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects is pulled into a particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well in response to values from its n-tuple matching said at least one context object in said particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well; and

eighth program instructions to store the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well for use with future retrieval of each of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects pulled therein; and

wherein

the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.

20. The computer system of claim 19, further comprising:

ninth program instructions to dynamically adjust a displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well according to how many parsed synthetic context-based objects are pulled into the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well; and

wherein

the ninth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.