TESSELLATED DATA VISUALIZATION SYSTEM

摘要

A data visualization system and related methods may include generating a multi-dimensional graphical object, in which a tessellated arrangement of columns represents an underlying hierarchical data set. Parent-child relationships may be represented by adjacency of columns with respect to an X-Y plane. Magnitudes of underlying values and/or expressions may be represented by Z-axis heights of the columns.

主权项

1. A method, implemented in a data processing system, the method comprising:
receiving, using a data processing system, one or more elements of a data set; identifying, using a processor of the data processing system, a plurality of hierarchical data nodes of the data set, each of the data nodes having an associated first quantitative value corresponding to a first time interval and an associated second quantitative value corresponding to a second time interval, and one or more relationships between the data nodes, such that identifying the data nodes includes identifying at least one parent node and one or more generations of child nodes; generating, using the data processing system, a multi-dimensional graphical object illustrating the first and second quantitative values of the data nodes and the one or more relationships between the data nodes; wherein generating the graphical object includes:
defining a first reference cylinder having a central axis and a surface;representing the first quantitative value of a first node of the data nodes as a first protruding member extending radially from the surface of the first reference cylinder at a first axial height and a first angular location, the first protruding member having a radial extent from the surface corresponding to the first quantitative value of the first node;representing the second quantitative value of the first node as a second protruding member extending radially from the surface of the first reference cylinder at a second axial height and at the first angular location, the second axial height spaced from the first axial height along the central axis such that the second protruding member is axially adjacent to the first protruding member, the second protruding member having a radial extent from the surface corresponding to the second quantitative value of the first node; andrepresenting the first quantitative value of a second node of the data nodes as a third protruding member extending radially from the surface of the first reference cylinder at the first axial height and at a second angular location, the second angular location spaced from the first angular location around the central axis, the third protruding member having a radial extent from the surface corresponding to the first quantitative value of the second node; and transmitting the graphical object for display.