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Morten Holm-Peterson

George G Robertson

Bongshin Lee

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Murali R Krishnan

Jason Joseph Weber

Christian Olaf Abeln

Stella Yick Chan

Gur Kimchi

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Brian L Welcker

B Scott Ruble

Benjamin L Chronister

Barry James Givens

Matthew Jay Kotler

Curtis Glenn Wong

Benjamin Edward Rampson

Brian Scott Ruble

David Francis Gainer

Christian Bernd Schormann

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

Timothy Garry Dwyer

Lev Boris Nachmanson

Jakob Peter Nielsen

William Guthrie Morein

Joshua W Lee

Ian Michael Dunmore

Alexandre Gorev

Ahmed K Kamal

Thomas Michael Casey

Kelley T Maves

Gregory D Schechter

Mikkel Ronne Jakobsen

Olga Kulyk

Kipper V Jewsbury

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

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can support a declarative model-based approach to designing, constructing, and rendering visualizations. By complying with a declarative descriptor, components can be readily customized by way of modifications to the model&#x2014;declaratively specifying suitable features, behaviors, appearances and so forth. The descriptors that conform to the model can also facilitate connecting to various data sources and performing data transformation operations. Moreover, the descriptors that conform to the model can declaratively specify relationships based upon a scene layout. Accordingly, the architecture can further describe the scene layout and provide features based upon the layout.

Declarative approach for visualization

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

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