Data file grouping analysis

A system for analyzing data files to identify similar files to group for display within a limited visual space of a graphical user interface, the system comprising:

• a memory comprising instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the instructions to:
• receive a search query for a collection of media files, each media file in the collection of media files having an associated unique index value mapping each media file to a corresponding dense image vector for the media file capturing the visual nature of the media file;
• identify a subset of the media files from the collection that is responsive to the search query;
• group the subset of the media files into a plurality of groups based on their visual similarity, wherein the visual similarity of each media file in the subset of media files is determined using an image vector corresponding to each media file;
• and
• provide the subset of the media files for display in their respective groups.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions for causing a processor to execute a method for analyzing data files to identify similar files to group for display within a limited visual space of a graphical user interface, the method comprising:

• receiving a search query for a collection of media files, each media file in the collection of media files having an associated unique index value mapping each media file to a corresponding dense image vector for the media file capturing the visual nature of the media file;
• identifying a subset of the media files from the collection that is responsive to the search query;
• clustering the subset of the media files into predetermined number of groups based on their visual similarity using a k means clustering algorithm by applying a cosine similarity algorithm to the dense image vectors corresponding to the subset of media files;
• and
• providing the subset of the media files for display in their respective groups ordered according to a responsiveness value to the search query of the most responsive media file in the respective group, or ordered according to an average of the responsiveness values to the search query of each of the media files in the respective group,
• wherein providing the subset of the media files for display in their respective groups comprises, for each group to be displayed, displaying a first media file in the group at a first size, and displaying at least one other file in the group at a second size smaller than the first size, or for each media file in a group to be displayed, displaying each of the displayed media files in the group at equal sizes, and for media files not displayed in a displayed group of media files, providing an interface for a user to select additional media files from the displayed group to be displayed.