Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

William Guthrie Morein

George G Robertson

Brian Scott Ruble

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

Jakob Peter Nielsen

Joshua W Lee

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Murali R Krishnan

Jason Joseph Weber

Christian Bernd Schormann

Abraham Mathew

Stella Yick Chan

Sean Boon

Nathan Paul McCoy

Sung Won Shin

Gur Kimchi

Benjamin Edward Rampson

Bongshin Lee

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Brian L Welcker

B Scott Ruble

Christian Olaf Abeln

David Gordon Bradlee

Heidi McAllister

John Zhongqi Wang

Emil Cicos

Morten Holm-Peterson

Barry James Givens

Dillon Nugent

Po-Yan Tsang

Ahmed K Kamal

Raveendrnathan Loganathan

Phillippe-Joseph Arida

Loic Henry-Greard

Mairead Therese Droney

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 system facilitates dynamic data visualizations. The system includes an analysis component that periodically processes one or more incoming data streams to determine a visualization form from a plurality of visualization forms. A visualization component dynamically generates the visualization form based in part on the processing of the incoming data streams.

Visualization of streaming real-time 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

Technologies are described herein for refreshing data-linked diagrams on a server computer and viewing and consuming the refreshed diagrams via a Web browser. A drawing program allows equations within a diagram definition to define how external data is utilized to modify the attributes of a diagram element. When the diagram is published to a server computer, the definition is converted to server-legible definition. A published diagram is generated that includes a diagram representation defined by the server-legible definition. Upon a request for the published diagram, the external data is refreshed and the diagram definition is updated. The equations are recalculated to generate new element attributes. The diagram representation is then updated with the new attributes and returned for display by a client Web browser. An interface provides exploration tools and a client API exposes methods for surfacing external data and annotating the diagram.

Web-based visualization, refresh, and consumption of data-linked diagrams

Technologies are described herein for high-performance rasterization of a vector graphic on a server computer. A vector graphic loader receives the vector graphic and generates an intermediate data structure from the vector graphic. A vector graphic renderer receives the intermediate data structure and renders the intermediate data structure to a render surface. An imaging component encodes the contents of the render surface to a raster image in a standard image format. The vector graphic loader and the vector graphic renderer are configured for multi-threaded and multi-processor execution on a server computer, which provides high performance.

Server-based rasterization of vector graphics

Customizable data diagrams are provided by a data diagram software facility. The facility receives a reference to a multidimensional data set on which to base an initial data diagram. Based, at least in part, on this information, the facility generates a data diagram providing a graphical representation of nodes corresponding to data from the multidimensional data set. The facility displays the data diagram, which can be modified by a user. For example, the facility may provide tools that allow the user to change the order of the nodes of the data diagram, change the shape of the nodes of the data diagram, change the color or format of the nodes of the data diagram, etc. The facility may also provide functionality that allows the user to drill down on aspects of the data diagram based on a breakdown scheme.

Diagrammatic access and arrangement of data

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William Guthrie Morein