Systems, methods, and computer program products to interpret, explain, and manipulate exceptions in multidimensional data

摘要

Systems, methods, and computer products that interpret, explain, and manipulate exceptions in multidimensional data. The present invention assists the data analyst by providing a simplified view of the multidimensional data that enables analysis of the important results of data exception exploration. Further, the preferred embodiment of the present invention incorporates the effect of density of the data along each dimension. The preferred embodiment of the present invention also provides the framework necessary to assign linguistic meaning to the exception for each dimension. This enables data analysts to obtain information about the value of the data that is present.