Sunburst Chart Text Search Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Navigating and searching for specific information in large datasets with hierarchical structures, such as sunburst charts, becomes cumbersome and time-consuming as the number of items and hierarchies increase, making it difficult to quickly find desired information.
Innovation Solution
A computer system displays sunburst charts with a text search control in a graphical user interface, allowing users to input text to select and emphasize relevant sections, thereby simplifying the visualization and retrieval of information by associating selected sections across concentric circles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If sunburst charts are used to visualize hierarchical information, then information density and visual representation are improved, but ease of operation and search efficiency deteriorate as the number of sections and concentric circles increases
Solution Approach 1:
A text search control is introduced as an intermediary tool between the user and the complex sunburst chart. This mediator allows users to input text queries that automatically navigate and highlight relevant sections across multiple concentric circles, eliminating the need for manual navigation through the complex hierarchical structure while maintaining full access to the dense information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs automatic section identification and emphasis based on user input text. The computer system autonomously analyzes the query, identifies matching sections across different hierarchical levels, and highlights them without requiring the user to manually explore the chart structure, thereby maintaining information density while improving search efficiency.
2Measurement precision
If the hierarchy levels in the sunburst chart are increased to represent more detailed information, then measurement precision and information detail are improved, but device complexity and difficulty of detecting information increase
Solution Approach 1:
The text search control serves as an intermediary that simplifies access to detailed information in complex hierarchies. Users can query specific details without needing to understand or navigate the complex multi-level structure, allowing the chart to maintain high information detail while reducing the effective complexity experienced by users.
Solution Approach 2:
Manual navigation through the hierarchical structure is replaced with text-based querying. Instead of mechanically navigating through multiple concentric circles and sections, users simply input text queries, and the system automatically identifies and highlights the relevant detailed information, substituting a complex mechanical navigation system with a simpler information-retrieval system.
3Loss of information
If more sections are displayed in the sunburst chart to include comprehensive data, then information completeness is improved, but loss of time for reviewing results increases
Solution Approach 1:
The text search control extracts and highlights only the relevant sections matching the user's query from the comprehensive data set. This extraction process maintains access to all information in the chart while quickly isolating and emphasizing only the portions needed for the specific query, dramatically reducing review time without sacrificing information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
Visual emphasis through color changes or highlighting is applied to sections that match the search criteria. This allows users to quickly locate relevant information in the comprehensive data set without manually reviewing every section, maintaining information completeness while minimizing the time required to find specific details.
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AI summary
A method for accessing information. Sections in a sunburst chart are displayed, by a computer system, in a graphical user interface in a display system. The sections represent the information and are displayed hierarchically in concentric circles. A section within an angle defined by an inner section relative to the section is associated with the inner section. A text search control is displayed, by the computer system, in the graphical user interface. The text search control receives text through user input. A selection of a plurality of sections displayed in the graphical user interface is identified, by the computer system, from the user input to the text search control. The plurality of sections in a different one of the concentric circles is emphasized, by the computer system, in the graphical user interface. The plurality of sections is associated with each other and enables increased efficiency in viewing the information.