Manage analytics contexts through a series of analytics interactions via a graphical user interface

A method comprising:

• storing, by a network device, a plurality of analytics interactions by a user during an interactive analytics session, each of the analytics interactions representing an analytics context of the analytics interaction and a result of the analytics interaction;
• in response to a selection of a current analytics interaction during the interactive analytics session, generating, by the network device, a series of connected icons representing a series of analytics interactions using the plurality of stored analytics interactions, wherein the series of connected icons includes a current context icon representing the current analytics interaction and previous context icons representing previous analytics interactions of the interactive analytics session prior to the current analytics interaction, wherein the current context icon includes a current analytics context of the current analytics interaction;
• displaying, on a graphical user interface, the series of connected icons representing the series of analytics interactions;
• managing, by the network device, analytics contexts of the series of analytics interactions by navigating the current analytics context to a different analytics context by selecting a particular analytics interaction in the series of analytics interactions that contains the different analytics context and changing the current analytics context to the different analytics context of the particular analytics interaction;
• recalculating, by the network device, the result corresponding to the different analytics context by applying the particular analytics interaction to data;
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• updating, by the network device, the series of analytics interactions on the graphical user interface by changing a visualization style of an icon corresponding to the particular analytics interaction to a different visualization style.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by at least one processor of a network device to cause the at least one processor to:

• store a plurality of analytics interactions by a user during an interactive analytics session, each analytics interaction including an analytics context of the analytics interaction and a result of the analytics interaction;
• in response to a selection of a current analytics interaction during the interactive analytics session, generate a series of connected icons representing a series of analytics interactions using the plurality of stored analytics interactions, wherein the series of connected icons includes a current context icon representing the current analytics interaction and previous context icons representing previous analytics interactions of the interactive analytics session prior to the current analytics interaction, wherein the current context icon includes a current analytics context of the current analytics interaction;
• display, on a graphical user interface, the series of connected icons representing the series of analytics interactions;
• manage the analytics contexts of the series of analytics interactions by modifying the series of analytics interactions created by the user during the interactive analytics session to deactivate a user-selected analytics context;
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• update the series of analytics interactions on the graphical user interface by changing a visualization style of one of the connected icons that includes the user-selected analytics context to a different visualization style.