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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2010
Danyel Fisher, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Mark Drucker, Bellevue, WA (US);
Roland Fernandez, Woodinville, WA (US);
Vikram Bapat, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert Scott Silverstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Xiaoji Chen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Anson An-chun Tsao, Redmond, WA (US);
Oscar Pawel Kozlowski, Seattle, WA (US);
Danyel Fisher, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Mark Drucker, Bellevue, WA (US);
Roland Fernandez, Woodinville, WA (US);
Vikram Bapat, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert Scott Silverstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Xiaoji Chen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Anson An-Chun Tsao, Redmond, WA (US);
Oscar Pawel Kozlowski, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Descried herein are various technologies to visualizing data in a spreadsheet application. Customized visualizations are generated by binding a user-defined equation with a parameter of a primitive visual shape that has been selected by the user to visualized a dataset. The user-defined equation takes as input a value of data in a cell of the spreadsheet application, and the primitive visual shape is displayed to the user as a function of the output of the user-defined equation.