Interface for data analysis

A computer-implemented method for generating instances of dashboards, each dashboard instance comprising a set of visualizations of analytical data, relating to a collection of data, the method comprising:

• obtaining user interaction data representative of a user's actions undertaken during data exploration of the collection of data comprising a dataset, wherein the user interaction data comprises two or more states of a data exploration process interacted with by the user during the data exploration;
• identifying data projections associated with the two or more states of the data exploration process interacted with by the user during the data exploration, wherein a first state and a second state of the two or more states are collapsed to provide a single piece of content corresponding to a combined data projection which comprises content of data projections associated with the first and second states of the two or more states of the data exploration process;
• creating, based on the identified data projections, a set of potential visualizations of analytical data relating to the collection of data, wherein the set of potential visualizations of analytical data comprises potential content of interest to the user to be potentially displayed in at least one dashboard instance;
• ranking potential visualizations in the set of potential visualizations of analytical data in order of priority based on a weighting scheme, wherein the weighting scheme prioritizes content based on collected run-time statistics relating to data access events by the user during the data exploration, one or more analytical operations performed on the dataset to generate the analytical data and a location of data used to generate the analytical data;
• defining the at least one dashboard instance to include one or more potential visualizations from the set of potential visualizations of analytical data based on their priority ranking;
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• presenting the at least one defined dashboard instance to the user.