US 2014/0229497 A1Published application

Automated data analysis

AssigneeWolfram Alpha LLC

InventorsStephen Wolfram, Taliesin Sebastian Beynon

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Abstract

A compatibility of a computational analysis and a data set is automatically determined by comparing data set attribute data with attribute data of the computational analysis. Other computational analyses may also be evaluated for compatibility with the data set. Compatible analyses may be performed on the data set, and selected views of the results may be presented. Selection of the analyses to be performed, the views, and/or the contents and format of the views may be determined based result data attributes and computational analysis attribute data as well as other considerations, such as resources required and multiplicity. As computational analysis attributes are based on a set of rules or statements determined from heuristics of respective computational analyses, evaluation of the compatibility between various analyses and the data set is accordingly determined based on the heuristic-based rules or statements. Computational analyses may include visualizations and heavyweight computational analyses.

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Dependent claims

An automated data analysis system for automatically determining compatibility of a computational analysis and a data set, comprising:

one or more tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage devices storing computational analysis attribute data,
the computational analysis attribute data being information indicative of one or more respective attributes of each computational analysis of a set of computational analyses, and
the one or more respective attributes indicating respective characteristics of data that is compatible with being an object of a performance of the each computational analysis;
and
one or more computing devices communicatively coupled to the one or more tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage devices, the one or more computing devices configured to:
receive data set attribute data, the data set attribute data being information indicative of one or more attributes of a data set;
perform a comparison of the data set attribute data and computational analysis attribute data corresponding to a particular computational analysis of the set of computational analyses;
determine a measure of compatibility between the data set and the particular computational analysis based on the comparison;
and
at least one of:
(i) select a subset of one or more computational analyses from the set of computational analyses based on the measure of compatibility corresponding to the particular computational analysis, the selected subset of the one or more computational analyses to be performed on at least a portion of the data set, or
(ii) cause an indication of the measure of compatibility corresponding to the particular computational analysis to be transmitted to a user computer.

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A method for automatically analyzing data sets to determine compatible computational analyses, comprising:

receiving, via a communication link at one or more computing devices, data set attribute data, the data set attribute data being information indicative of one or more attributes of a data set;
performing, at the one or more computing devices, a comparison of (i) the data set attribute data, and (ii) computational analysis attribute data corresponding to a particular computational analysis,
the computational analysis attribute data of the particular computational analysis being information that is indicative of one or more attributes of the particular computational analysis, and
the one or more attributes of the particular computational analysis indicating respective characteristics of data that is compatible with being operated on by the particular computational analysis, and
the particular computational analysis included in a plurality of computational analyses;
determining, by the one or more computing devices, a measure of compatibility between the data set and the particular computational analysis based on the comparison;
and
at least one of:
selecting, by the one or more computing devices, a subset of one or more computational analyses from the plurality of computational analyses based on the measure of compatibility corresponding to the particular computational analysis, the selected subset of one or more computational analyses to be performed on at least a portion of the data set, or
causing, by the one or more computing devices, an indication of the measure of compatibility between the data set and the particular computational analysis to be generated at a user interface.

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A system for supporting a data analysis, comprising:

a plurality of indication sets stored one or more tangible, non-transitory data storage devices,
each indication set of the plurality of indication sets including respective indications of one or more computational analysis attributes of each computational analysis of a plurality of computational analyses, and
the one or more attributes of the each computational analysis including at least one of:
one or more characteristics or properties of data that are necessary for the data to be compatible with the each computational analysis, or
one or more characteristics or properties of the data that are sufficient for the data to be compatible with the each computational analysis;
and
an interface via which one or more computing devices are communicatively coupled to the one or more tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage devices, the one or more computing devices configured to provide at least some of the indication sets to a data analysis system configured to perform at least some of the plurality of computational analyses based on at least some of the indication sets.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.