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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2019
Tableau Software, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Eliana Leite Goldner, Vancouver, CA;
Jeffrey Ericson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alex Djalali, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Vidya Raghavan Setlur, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Suyang Duan, Vancouver, CA;
TABLEAU SOFTWARE, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A method executes at a computing device that includes a display, one or more processors, and memory. The method includes receiving user input to specify a data source. The method includes receiving a first user input in a first region of a graphical user interface to specify a natural language command related to the data source. The device determines, based on the first user input, that the natural language command includes a table calculation expression. In accordance with the determination, the method identifies a second data field in the data source, Values of the first data field are aggregated for each of the time periods in a range of dates according to the second data field. A respective difference between the aggregated values for each consecutive pair of time periods is computed. A data visualization is generated and displayed.