Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Bongshin Lee

George G Robertson

Timothy S Paek

Nathalie Henry Riche

Anoop Gupta

Bo Thiesson

Desney S Tan

Johnson T Apacible

Ashish Kapoor

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Amir Netz

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Murali R Krishnan

Asela J Gunawardana

Saleema Amin Amershi

Timothy Garry Dwyer

Christian Olaf Abeln

Stella Yick Chan

Sheelagh Carpendale

Steven Nabil Bathiche

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Brett David Brewer

Ratul Mahajan

Tim Paek

Jason Joseph Weber

Lev Boris Nachmanson

Benjamin L Chronister

Morten Holm-Peterson

Ronald O Pessner

Donghao Ren

Gur Kimchi

Steven Mark Drucker

Matthew Jay Kotler

Curtis Glenn Wong

John C Tang

Gina Danielle Venolia

Julian James Odell

Dmytro Rudchenko

Matthew Michael Brehmer

David Francis Gainer

Brian L Welcker

Gary Voronel

B Scott Ruble

Ian Michael Dunmore

Alexandre Gorev

Barry James Givens

Eric J Horvitz

Paramvir Bahl

Philip Andrew Chou

Christopher A Meek

David Maxwell Chickering

Patrice Y Simard

Mary P Czerwinski

Sharad Agarwal

Patrick Markus Baudisch

Benjamin Edward Rampson

Cristian Petculescu

Yun-Cheng Ju

Gonzalo Alberto Ramos

Stefan Saroiu

Trishul A Chilimbi

Alice Jane Bernheim Brush

Gregory Ray Smith

Srikanth Kandula

Greg D Schechter

Eran Megiddo

Denis X Charles

Xiaoji Chen

Shahar Prish

Brian Scott Ruble

Jason D Williams

Patrick John Baumgartner

Amy Kathleen Karlson

Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez

Yutaka Suzue

Bo-June Hsu

Adam Fourney

Pedram Faghihi Rezaei

Juan Dai

Aparna Lakshmiratan

Oliver Scholz

Adam Donald Wilson

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

Christian Bernd Schormann

Greg R Smith

Morten Holm-Petersen

Jakob Peter Nielsen

David G Grangier

Nikhil Devanur Rangarajan

Vishwas Kulkarni

Jin A Suh

Hong Z Tan

William Guthrie Morein

Diego M Oppenheimer

Amy Nicole Forstrom

Timothy Seung Yoon Paek

Joshua W Lee

Byungki Byun

Matthew J Longley

Alexander E Holroyd

In example, a natural language input is processed to generate a formal query that is executed to retrieve data from a data store. An indication as to which subparts of the natural language input were used to generate the formal query may be presented to a user. The user may debug the query, such that associations between natural language input subparts and formal query subparts may be changed, added, or removed by the user. Further, a set of steps may be generated that provide an indication to the user as to how the formal query is executed, for example using sample data from the data store. The user may manipulate the sample data, thereby causing the presented steps to be updated accordingly. Once the user has made adjustments and has finished debugging the query, the revised formal query may be executed to retrieve updated data from the data store.

Natural language query processing and debugging

A chart creation tool is provided that operatively, specifies chart layouts interactively in lieu of programmatically specifying data transformations. Operatively, the herein described systems and methods can convert user-specified layouts into mathematical constraints, and a constraint solver is employed to draw the resulting chart. An illustrative user interface is provided that can allow a user to input data representative of one or more chart layouts through the interaction with one or more illustrative controls of the user interface. Responsive to such interactions (i.e., data input), one or more mathematical constraints can be calculated/generated from the inputted user-specified one or more chart layout input data. Illustratively, the chart layout can comprise a reusable layout.

Interactive layout-aware construction of bespoke charts

Described herein is a split virtual keyboard that is displayed on a tablet (slate) computing device. The split virtual keyboard includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being separated from the second portion. The first portion includes a plurality of character keys that are representative at least one respective character. The tablet computing device is configured to support text generation by way of a continuous sequence of strokes over the plurality of character keys in the first portion of the split virtual keyboard.

Split virtual keyboard on a mobile computing device

Various technologies described herein pertain to presenting a graphical object on a display screen. An indication that specifies a selected value attribute from a dataset for the graphical object and an example icon for the graphical object can be received. The example icon is a cluster of strokes, where a stroke is a mark that is displayable on the display screen. The graphical object is generated based upon the example icon and data for the selected value attribute from the dataset. The graphical object includes instances of the example icon respectively modified based upon the data for the selected value attribute from the dataset. The graphical object can be caused to be displayed on the display screen. Creation of strokes of the instances of the example icon included in the graphical object can be recorded for subsequent replay. The graphical object can be annotated and/or modified by filtering the data.

Engaging presentation through freeform sketching

The description relates to a shared digital workspace. One example includes a display device and sensors. The sensors are configured to detect users proximate the display device and to detect that an individual user is performing an individual user command relative to the display device. The system also includes a graphical user interface configured to be presented on the display device that allows multiple detected users to simultaneously interact with the graphical user interface via user commands.

User interface for collaborative efforts

A link curvature processing module enables a user with the ability to control the curvature of links in a node-link diagram. As a node-link diagram is displayed to a user, the user may interact with the diagram and adjust the curvature of one or more links in the diagram to improve the readability of the diagram. The user's modification to the curvature of a link alters the shape of the link so that the position of the nodes connected to the link does not change. By providing the user with such control, the user is able to tailor the visual display of the links to the user's preference.

Interactive control of the curvature of links

Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for improving performance of a multi-class classifier. An interactive graphical user interface includes an item representation display area that displays a plurality of item representations corresponding to a plurality of items processed by a multi-class classifier. The classifier's performance can be visualized using bidirectional bar graphs displaying true positives, false positives, and false negatives for each class.

Interactive performance visualization of multi-class classifier

The claimed subject matter generates animated data visualization videos. A user interface is displayed that includes a clip library panel, a clips panel, and a configurations panel. The clip library panel includes available data clips; the clips panel includes multiple configured data clips; and, the configurations panel includes properties of a selected data clip from the clips panel. A user interface for entering a dataset is displayed. Multiple data clips dragged from the clip library panel to the clips panel, are added to the clips panel. Configuration settings for a dragged and dropped data clip are displayed in the configurations panel. One or more properties of the data clip are updated. An animated data visualization video is generated based on the dragged and dropped data clips and updated properties, and in a sequence specified in the clips panel.

Animated data visualization video

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

Disclosed herein are technologies directed to a feature ideator. The feature ideator can initiate a classifier that analyzes a training set of data in a classification process. The feature ideator can generate one or more suggested features relating to errors generated during the classification process. The feature ideator can generate an output to cause the errors to be rendered in a format that provides for an interaction with a user. A user can review the summary of the errors or the individual errors and select one or more features to increase the accuracy of the classifier.

Error-driven feature ideation in machine learning

Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for visualizing a performance of a machine-learned model. An interactive graphical user interface includes an item representation display area that displays a plurality of item representations corresponding to a plurality of items processed by the machine-learned model. The plurality of item representations are arranged according to scores assigned to the plurality of items by the machine-learned model. Further, each of the plurality of item representations is visually configured to represent a label assigned to a corresponding item.

Interactive visualization of machine-learning performance

The techniques and systems described herein efficiently and effectively enable an author to create an interactive, data-driven presentation during an authoring stage. Moreover, the techniques and systems enable a consumer to interact with the data-driven presentation during a consuming stage. For example, the techniques and systems generate and output graphical user interfaces that enable an author to define consumer interaction settings so a consumer of the presentation can: switch between alternative types of visual elements (e.g., charts), determine whether a visual element is presented with or without animation, determine a presentation timing of visual elements and/or textual elements, determine presentation styles (e.g., color scheme, font type, etc.), filter a set of data presented in a visual element so that a subset of the data can be viewed or distinguished, and/or adjust a scale associated with a visual element (e.g., change a scale for an axis of a chart).

Interactive data-driven presentations

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Bongshin Lee