Smart anchoring of visual treatments corresponding to user comments in business intelligence visualizations
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsVinay Wadhwa, Graham A. Watts
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Abstract
Applying visual treatments to business intelligence dashboards is provided. A user comment in a dashboard of a business intelligence tool is analyzed. A context of the user comment is identified. A visual treatment is applied to a data visualization on the dashboard based on the context of the user comment.
Claims14
A computer-implemented method for applying visual treatments to business intelligence dashboards by a dashboard application of a business intelligence tool executing on a computer, the computer-implemented method comprising:
- analyzing, by a comment chain application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, a user comment in a dashboard of the business intelligence tool;
- identifying, by the comment chain application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, a context of the user comment, wherein the computer analyzes the user comment in the dashboard of the business intelligence tool using text analysis to determine the context of the user comment;
- sending, by the comment chain application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, the context to the dashboard application;
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- applying, by the dashboard application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, a visual treatment to a data visualization on the dashboard based on the context of the user comment;
- receiving, by the computer, the user comment that corresponds to data shown in the data visualization on the dashboard;
- adding, by the computer, the user comment to the data visualization on the dashboard, wherein the business intelligence tool receives a data query result containing the data from a database residing on a server computer, uses the dashboard application to generate the data visualization, and uses the comment chain application to receive and manage user comments regarding the data visualization;
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- determining, by the computer, (i) which part of the data within the data visualization the user comment pertains to and (ii) a plurality of visual treatments to apply to the part of the data within the data visualization based on the context of the user comment and the data shown in the data visualization.
A computer system for applying visual treatments to business intelligence dashboards by a dashboard application of a business intelligence tool executing on the computer system, the computer system comprising:
- a bus system;
- a storage device connected to the bus system, wherein the storage device stores program instructions;
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- a processor connected to the bus system, wherein the processor executes the program instructions to:
- analyze, by a comment chain application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, a user comment in a dashboard of the business intelligence tool;
- identify a context of the user comment;
- sending the context to the dashboard application;
- apply, by the dashboard application executing on the computer, a visual treatment to a data visualization on the dashboard based on the context of the user comment;
- receive the user comment that corresponds to data shown in the data visualization on the dashboard;
- add the user comment to the data visualization on the dashboard, wherein the business intelligence tool receives a data query result containing the data from a database residing on a server computer, uses the dashboard application to generate the data visualization and uses the comment chain application to receive and manage user comments regarding the data visualization;
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- determine (i) which part of the data within the data visualization the user comment pertains to and (ii) a plurality of visual treatments to apply to the part of the data within the data visualization based on the context of the user comment and the data shown in the data visualization.
A computer program product for applying visual treatments to business intelligence dashboards by a dashboard application of a business intelligence tool executing on a computer, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by the computer to cause the computer to perform a method comprising:
- analyzing, by a comment chain application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, a user comment in a dashboard of the business intelligence tool;
- identifying, by the comment chain application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, a context of the user comment;
- sending, by the comment chain application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, the context to the dashboard application;
- applying, by the dashboard application of the business intelligence tool executing on the computer, a visual treatment to a data visualization on the dashboard based on the context of the user comment;
- receiving, by the computer, the user comment that corresponds to data shown in the data visualization on the dashboard;
- adding, by the computer, the user comment to the data visualization on the dashboard, wherein the business intelligence tool receives a data query result containing the data from a database residing on a server computer, uses the dashboard application to generate the data visualization and uses the comment chain application to receive and manage user comments regarding the data visualization;
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- determining, by the computer, (i) which part of the data within the data visualization the user comment pertains to and (ii) a plurality of visual treatments to apply to the part of the data within the data visualization based on the context of the user comment and the data shown in the data visualization.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.