Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

B Scott Ruble

Matthew Jay Kotler

Curtis Glenn Wong

Igor B Peev

Jonathan Edgar Fay

Ehab Sobhy

Catherine William Neylan

Kevin Fan

Gur Kimchi

George G Robertson

Benjamin Edward Rampson

Bongshin Lee

Erez Kikin-Gil

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Ned Bearer Friend

Murali R Krishnan

Charles W Parker

Barry Christopher Allyn

Igor Y Zaika

Jason Joseph Weber

Brian L Welcker

John Alfred Payne

Christian Olaf Abeln

Stella Yick Chan

Greg S Lindhorst

Morten Holm-Peterson

Jai Srinivasan

Daniel Cory

Marcus Eduardo Markiewicz

Matthew John Androski

Timothy Garry Dwyer

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

Christian Bernd Schormann

Lev Boris Nachmanson

Jakob Peter Nielsen

Daniel M Cheung

William Guthrie Morein

Benjamin L Chronister

Randall L Davis

Joshua W Lee

Barry James Givens

Andrew John Verprauskus

Ahmed K Kamal

Mikkel Ronne Jakobsen

Olga Kulyk

Kipper V Jewsbury

Chris Becker

Kelsey Allen Pedersen

Deepali Tamhane

Michelle Sarah Tarson

Barry Allyn

A visualization of computer-enabled information in association with a computer-enabled map is provided. One or more data items may be imported onto a computer-generated mapping surface. A data visualization application may obtain location information, for example, physical address or latitude/longitude coordinates, for each data item. A map showing a geographical area large enough to contain each data item may be automatically generated and displayed, and each data item may be located on the map and may be identified by an identifying icon or label. Selection of an icon or label for any of the data items may cause display of information about the data item. The map display and visualization of the data items on the map display may be dynamically modified as one or more other data items are imported onto the visualization surface or as one or more existing data items are removed from the visualization surface.

Authoring of data visualizations and maps

Various methods, systems and storage devices are provided for tagging chart elements and for optimizing chart visualizations. Tagged chart elements and their corresponding display attributes are preserved during chart visualization optimizations that result in a modification of untagged chart elements.

Tagging utilizations for selectively preserving chart elements during visualization optimizations

Various methods, systems and storage devices are provided for sequencing chart visualization optimizations that include reducing a chart visualization to a single displayed value. Various methods, systems and storage devices are also provided for creating and utilizing an interactive control that is dynamically created in response to one or more chart elements being removed from a chart visualization during optimization of the chart visualization and that is operable, when selected and expanded, for accessing the removed one or more chart elements. Later, the one or more chart elements are removed from the chart visualization again by collapsing the interactive control.

Interactive controls that are collapsible and expandable and sequences for chart visualization optimizations

A system (and corresponding methodology) by which a user can interact directly with visual data is provided. The system employs associations and relationships between visual data objects to automatically update objects based upon a change in other objects. The innovation also provides specialized controls (e.g., dashboard tools/controls) that facilitate manipulation of visual data. As there can be numerous manners in which a user can interact with visualization data, the innovation enables a specialized set of controls to be identified and provided to a user thereby reducing overwhelming effects of a large number of controls.

Dashboard controls to manipulate visual data

Various methods, systems and storage devices are used for utilizing selective triggering events for optimizing chart visualizations. These selective triggering events can include determinations that chart elements are overlapping, that the chart elements are certain types of chart elements and/or that the chart elements are overlapping by a certain amount. The optimizations can include changing sizes, positions and/or transparencies of different chart elements.

Utilizing selective triggering events for optimizing chart visualization

Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer system executes a visualization component. Selection of an option to create a tour can be detected by the computer system. In response to detecting selection of the option, the computer system can create a tour. The computer system also can detect selection of an option to add a scene to the tour. The tour can be saved. Playback of the tour can be started in response to detecting selection of a play option. If the playback is paused, changes made to the tour and/or the scenes can be tracked by the computer system, and an updated version of the tour can be saved.

Generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application

Concepts and technologies are described herein for displaying temporal information in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, spreadsheet data can be obtained at a computer system. The spreadsheet data can include data values, temporal information, and geographic information. The computer system can generate a visualization of the spreadsheet data based, at least partially, upon the data values, the temporal information, and the geographic location information. The computer system also can output the visualization.

Displaying temporal information in a spreadsheet application

Rendering electronic chart objects is provided. A set of chart elements having a common set of properties is identified. Formatting attributes of the chart elements and the data point locations for each chart element are also identified. Path information is generated for the chart elements that includes the formatting attributes and the data point locations. The path information is provided to a rendering engine that renders a chart element. Each chart element in the set is displayed on a display screen. Chart elements having a common set of properties are only rendered once. Alternatively, chart objects are rendered by generating and storing an image of chart objects having a common geometry and common properties and by copying the stored image to each data point location. Dynamic selection of rendering engines based on property and performance criteria may be utilized to enhance rendering performance.

Rendering electronic chart objects

Various types of data can be collected into a data set and related content and/or related concepts across the data in the data set and/or across search histories can be displayed as a visual representation. The related content/concepts can be presented as a function of incremental revealing of relationships. After reviewing the visual representation, a user can customize the data set and relationships by specifically excluding a related data segment. The visual representation can be applied across multiple searches or other obtained data. Through interaction with the visual representation, a user can drill down into common linkages of the data to more narrowly focus on a subset of the data and/or to refocus a search result and/or to provide annotations.

Using visual techniques to manipulate data

A data visualization interactivity architecture may be provided. The architecture may allow the creation of a data visualization, such as a chart, and may expose an interactive feature on the visualization. The architecture may provide integration with multiple rendering platforms. When a user selects the exposed feature, the architecture may translate the selection into a common format and modify the data visualization according to layout rules independent of the rendering platform.

Data visualization interactivity architecture

A Web Part connection runtime framework provides the architecture for Web Parts to connect and pass data between each other. The runtime framework provides a series of interfaces that a Web Part can implement to send or receive information from other connected Web Parts. The interfaces provided by the runtime framework allow for the connection of Web Parts on a server or client. A first Web Part is retrieved and connected to a second Web Part in response to a user selecting information to be passed from the first Web Part to the second Web Part. Subroutines of the connected Web Parts are fired signaling the Web Parts to pass data from one to another. Once the data is passed, the Web Part receiving data can be rendered while containing the passed data on the server or the client.

Method and system for implementing a connection between Web Parts to send or receive data

The Web Part authoring framework provides the a graphical user interface for connecting Web Parts, mechanisms for determining the compatibility between Web Parts, and the means to persist the connection between Web Parts. The framework builds the user interface for selecting the source and target parts based on a series of compatibility rules. A user can access a menu to specify the type of connection between a compatible source and target part. If the Web Parts implement different connection interface types, a transformer is generated to make the Web Parts compatible. The target and source Web Parts can reside on the same or different pages. Additionally, the target and source Web Parts can be created by different developers. After the end user defines the connection, the framework forms the connection between the Web Parts so the parts can share information.

Method and system for evaluating and connecting web parts

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