Systems and methods for generating visual representations of similarities between reports

Abstract

A system for generating a visual representation of similarities between reports is provided. The system receives input data comprising a plurality of reports from one or more information sources. For each report from the plurality of reports, the system extracts metadata. The metadata is distinct from data values in the respective report and indicates a plurality of data types of the data values in the respective report. For each pairwise combination of reports, the system computes one or more similarity metrics based on the extracted metadata for each report in the respective pairwise combination. Each similarity metric indicates a degree of similarity between metadata of a pairwise combination of reports. The system generates and displays a visual representation of similarities between each pairwise combination of reports. The visual representation is generated based on the one or more computed similarity metrics for each pairwise combination.