Business Objects Software Limited

Scott Cameron

Julian Gosper

Flavia Silvana Moser

In some example embodiments, an indication of a selected data point of a current visualization can be received. A context of the selected data point can be determined based on a dimension of the data point, and explanation candidates can be generated based on the context of the selected data point. Each exploration candidate can have a different dimension context that is within the context of the selected data point and a corresponding value for the dimension context. For each one of the explanation candidates, a corresponding score can be generated based on a difference between the value for the explanation candidate and an average value of all the values of the explanation candidates. The explanation candidates can be ranked based on the scores. At least one of the explanation candidates can be selected based on the ranking, and selectable explanation(s) for the selected explanation candidate(s) can be displayed.

System and method of providing visualization explanations

A plurality of graphical elements may be represented as a document object model (DOM) having a plurality of nodes, each node representing a different graphical element, the DOM having an ordering of the nodes, each node having a z-value of front or back, indicating that the corresponding graphical element is to be displayed in a front layer for a z-value of front or a back layer for a z-value of back. The z-value of one or more of the plurality of nodes corresponding to one or more graphical elements to be moved to the front layer or back layer may be altered. The DOM can then be reordered so that the one or more graphical elements to be moved to the front layer or back layer are at the front or back of the DOM, while maintaining the ordering between nodes having z-values of front and the ordering between nodes having z-values of back.

Fast bulk z-order for graphic elements

Techniques of providing visualization suggestions are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a current visualization of at least a portion of data of a dataset is determined to be displayed to a user in a graphical user interface of a device, a plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on an application of transition rules to the current visualization, a corresponding score for each one of the plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on a corresponding level of data variance for the data of the corresponding visualization candidate, a ranking of the plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on the scores, at least one of the plurality of visualization candidates is selected based on the ranking, and a plurality of selectable visualization suggestions corresponding to the selected visualization candidates is caused to be displayed to the user in the graphical user interface of the device.

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