Data interaction cards for capturing and replaying logic in visual analyses

A method for tracking application interactions, comprising:

• monitoring a data card interaction tracking tool;
• detecting an activation state for the data card interaction tracking tool based on the monitoring;
• activating a data card interaction tracking tool based on the detected activation state;
• in response to the activated data card interaction tracking tool, tracking interactions resulting in a changed state of a running application detected during an application session;
• generating a data card, wherein the data card identifies a tracked interaction with the running application and a state of the running application resulting from the tracked interaction;
• storing the data card into a data card deck;
• and
• transmitting, through a database interface, the data card deck to a database for storing.

A network system, comprising:

• a database interface configured to communicate with a database;
• a communication interface configured to communicate with a client device;
• a processor configured to communicate with the database interface and the communication interface, the processor further configured to:
• receive, through the communication interface, a search query from the client device;
• select a data card deck from the database based on the search query;
• receive, through the communication interface, a data card selection from the client device;
• activate a data card included in the data card deck based on the data card selection, wherein the data card identifies a tracked interaction with an application and a state of the application resulting from the tracked interaction;
• and
• control an application to revert to a state of the application resulting from the tracked interaction identified in the data card.