Personalized Data Visualization System for User-Specific Complexity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current data analytics applications face challenges in generating effective visual overviews of complex data sets and can be difficult to use for less sophisticated users, lacking in usability and appeal.

Innovation Solution

An automated and personalized data visualization system that uses a data processor and memory to receive user inputs, determine the purpose of the data, and generate personalized visualization images such as graphs or charts, tailored to the user's education level and understanding, thereby improving data monitoring and analysis efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If automated data visualization is implemented, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata analysis efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates personalized visualizations without requiring user intervention in the complex configuration process. The AI model self-adjusts visualization parameters based on user profiles and data characteristics, eliminating the need for manual setup while maintaining high productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

An AI model acts as an intermediary between the complex data processing system and the end user. This intermediary translates complex data structures into simplified visual representations automatically, resolving the contradiction by hiding system complexity while delivering efficient results.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If personalized visualizations are generated, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveusabilityVSAvoiddata detail
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different levels of detail and customization to different aspects of the visualization based on user profiles. Complex users receive more detailed views while less sophisticated users receive simplified representations, optimizing usability for each user without uniformly losing information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The visualization system dynamically adjusts its complexity and level of detail based on real-time assessment of user sophistication and data characteristics. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to maintain usability while preserving necessary information by adjusting the representation rather than permanently removing details.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10860640B2Personalized data visualization system
Publication Date: 2020.12.08 SAP SE
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AI summary

Systems, methods, and techniques to efficiently and effectively automate and personalize data visualization images. The method can include receiving at least one input from a user via an input/output device, and the at least one input can be associated with at least one prompt provided by the system to the user via the input/output device. The method can further include determining a purpose associated with at least one set of data. The purpose can define a use of the at least one set of data and the use can be defined by the user. The method can further include determining a personalized data visualization image of the at least one set of data for display to the user in response to the received at least one input and the determined purpose. The method can further include displaying the personalized data visualization image on a display for viewing by the user.