Adobe Inc.
GRAPH-BASED CONFIGURATION OF USER INTERFACE FOR SELECTION OF FEATURES IN VISUALIZATION APPLICATIONS

Abstract:

This disclosure involves generating, from a user data set, a ranked list of recommended secondary variables in a user interface field similar to primary variable selected in another user interface field. A system receives a data set having variables and corresponding sets of values. The data visualization system determines a feature vector for each variable based on statistics of a corresponding values set. The system generates a variable similarity graph having nodes representing variables and links representing degrees of similarity between feature vectors of variables. The system receives a selection of a first variable via a first field of the user interface, detects a selection of a second field, and identifies a relationship between the first field and the second field. The system generates a contextual menu of recommended secondary variables for use with the selected first variable based on similarity value of the links in the variable similarity graph.