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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2017
Tableau Software, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Vidya Raghavan Setlur, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Jock Douglas Mackinlay, Bellevue, WA (US);
TABLEAU SOFTWARE, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of visualizing data is performed at a computing device. A user selects a field in a data structure. The field has a set of field values and an associated field name. Each field value corresponds to a record in the data structure. The field values are words in a natural language. For each field value, the process builds a term set of base terms including the field value and the field name. The process retrieves a set of images from an image corpus according to the term sets. The process then selects an image from each retrieved set of images and displays data from the data structure in a data visualization. Each record in the data structure is displayed using the corresponding selected image. Each selected image is displayed, instead of the field value, at a location in the data visualization according to data in the respective record.