SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CONCEPT LANDSCAPE VISUALIZATIONS AS A DATA ANALYSIS TOOL

摘要

Systems and methods provide several enhancements for the viewing, analysis, and generation of landscape views (264) in a data analysis system, including: allowing a user to select from multiple methods to generate a landscape view, providing labels (274) for peaks (268) of a landscape, enabling the user to replace labels (274) displayed on the landscape view, enabling a landscape view to be recalculated based on the replacement labels, and allowing a user to switch or morph between two landscape views generated by different methods. Such methods or systems generate graphical landscape map visualizations (264) from a set of data records. Vector representations (Fig. 5) are created based on the data records and a user may select from a first landscape map generation method or a second landscape map generation method to generate first and second landscape map representations corresponding to the vector representations. The first landscape map generation method may calculate peak height (602) based on a used supplied topicality value and the second landscape map generation method may calculate the map based on the aggregate values of topicality parameters (264). A user may switch (272) or morph between the first and second landscape map to determine the influence of the first and second landscape map generation methods on the data records. A two-dimensional galaxy view (1000) of the data records may be superimposed on either the first or second landscape map representation.