Automate telling data-rich stories within analytics dashboard

A method for automated filtering within an analytics dashboard, the method comprising integrating, by a server and within a user-interface software framework used to develop dynamic web applications, aspects of the analytics dashboard, wherein integrating comprises the server:

• setting a series of filters for a database associated with the analytics dashboard by, for each filter of the series of filters, defining how the filter operates on data within records of the database;
• detecting an action through a user interface of the user-interface software framework;
• responsive to detecting the action, sequentially applying the series of filters to the data within the records of the database according to a sequential order of the series of filters and with a pause between application of each filter of the series of filters;
• and
• displaying, within the analytics dashboard, each set of results sequentially in response to application of each respective filter of the series of filters.

A system comprising:

• a computer-readable storage medium to store instructions of a user-interface software framework used to develop dynamic web applications, and to store a database associated with an analytics dashboard;
• and
• a processor coupled to the computer-readable storage medium, the processor to execute the instructions to:
• program a series of filters for the database, wherein to set each filter of the series of filters, define how the filter operates on data within records of the database;
• detect an action through a user interface of the user-interface software framework;
• in response to detection of the action, sequentially apply the series of filters to the data within the records of the database according to a sequential order of the series of filters and with a pause between application of each filter of the series of filters;
• and
• display, within the analytics dashboard, each set of results sequentially in response to application of each respective filter of the series of filters.