International Business Machines Corporation

Thomas Alan Keahey

Graham John Wills

Daniel Jay Rope

Vanessa V Michelini

A data visualization tool ('tool') configured to generate a visualization for tree data. The tool can calculate a number of hierarchical levels of the tree data. The tool can further subdivide a presentation area for the data visualization into a number of concentric parts. The concentric parts are equivalent to the number of hierarchical levels. Each of the concentric parts corresponds to one of the hierarchical levels. Further, the tool can graphically generate the data visualization for presentation via an electronic display. A first of the concentric parts that corresponds to a highest of the hierarchal levels is an outermost one of the concentric parts in the presentation area. Each successive concentric part inward corresponds to a next lower hierarchical level.

Generating an outside-in hierarchical tree visualization

System, method, and computer program product for measuring transitions between visualizations, the method comprising identifying data fields represented in a first visualization and one or more presentation characteristics for the data fields represented in the first visualization, identifying data fields represented in a second visualization and one or more presentation characteristics for the data fields represented in the second visualization, determining a plurality of transition scores, wherein each transition score represents a difference or similarity between the first and second visualizations, relative to either the identified data fields or the presentation characteristics, and generating a composite measure of transition between the first and second visualizations from the plurality of transition scores.

Measuring transitions between visualizations

Mechanisms are provided to implement a relation network visualization and interaction engine that is configured to generate an extended adjacency matrix representation of a relation network. The mechanisms create a relation network data structure, and generate an adjacency matrix graphical representation of the relation network based on analysis of the relation network data structure. The mechanisms extend the adjacency matrix graphical representation by adding an interactive indirect relation glyph, for an indirect relation in the relation network, to the adjacency matrix graphical representation in association with representations of a source entity and a target entity that correspond to the indirect relation, to thereby generate an extended adjacency matrix graphical representation. The mechanisms output the extended adjacency matrix graphical representation in a visual manner on a computing device.

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Naperville, IL, United States of America

Thomas Alan Keahey