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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2014
Tableau Software, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Anushka Anand, Seattle, WA (US);
Jock Douglas Mackinlay, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Seattle, WA (US);
TABLEAU SOFTWARE, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of ranking data visualizations is performed at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs for execution by the processors. A user selects a plurality of data fields from a set of data, and the computing device generates a plurality of data visualization options. Each data visualization option associates each of the user-selected data fields with a respective predefined visual specification feature. For each of the generated data visualization options, the device calculates a score based on a set of ranking criteria. A first ranking criterion of the set of ranking criteria is based on values of one or more of the user-selected data fields in the set of data. A ranked list of the data visualization options is then created, where the ranked list is ordered according to the computed scores of the data visualization options.