Determining a collection of data visualizations

A method, comprising:

• identifying a set of transition characteristics comprising continuities and discontinuities between data fields and data visualization channels among a plurality of data visualizations by analyzing the plurality of data visualizations and identifying similarities and differences among the data fields and the data visualization channels;
• determining, using a processor, a transition tuple for each of a plurality of pairs of the data visualizations, each transition tuple comprising a first value indicating a total number of data fields that are same in the pair of the data visualizations, a second value indicating an absolute difference in a number of visualization channels between the pair of data visualizations, and a third value indicating a number of ways visualization styles of the pair of the data visualizations differ, the transition tuples representing a distribution of the data fields and the data visualization channels across the plurality of data visualizations;
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• determining a collection of the data visualizations based on the distribution of the data fields and the data visualization channels across the plurality of data visualizations, the collection of the data visualizations comprising at least a subset of the plurality of data visualizations.