Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joshua W Lee

George G Robertson

Brian Scott Ruble

Sean Boon

Jakob Peter Nielsen

William Guthrie Morein

Murali R Krishnan

Jason Joseph Weber

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

Christian Bernd Schormann

Stella Yick Chan

Barry James Givens

Gur Kimchi

David Earl Heckerman

Benjamin Edward Rampson

Bongshin Lee

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Jason David Carlson

Brian L Welcker

B Scott Ruble

Christian Olaf Abeln

Morten Holm-Peterson

Nathan Paul McCoy

Ahmed K Kamal

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

A visualization design system is provided. The system includes a metadata component to describe characteristics of data. An analyzer determines attributes of a peer group, where the attributes are related to prior visualization design experiences of the group. A wizard component determines a subset of potential visualization types based in part on the characteristics of data and the attributes of the peer group.

Wizard for selecting visualization

A visualization development system is provided. The system includes a visualization tool to develop one or more visualizations and a grammar engine that operates with the visualization tool to automatically detect visualization problems during the development of the visualizations.

Grammar checker for visualization

A visualization input system is provided. The system includes a visualization component that receives input gestures from a user (or users) and translates the gestures into one or more data manipulation commands. A distribution component receives the data manipulation commands and propagates data modifications across one or more databases in view of the commands. This includes a rights component that enables the data modifications to be implemented across the one or more databases.

Visualization as input mechanism

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Joshua W Lee