Systems and Methods for Dynamic and Interactive Visualizations for Navigating Media Content

A system for playback of a media content item, comprising:

• one or more processors adapted to:
• provide, via a graphical interface, a graphical display, a first graphical element of the graphical display representing a first grouping of media content items from a corpus of media content items stored in at least one storage device, and a second graphical element of the graphical display representing a second grouping of media content items from the corpus of media content items,
• wherein the first graphical element and the second graphical element partially overlap in an overlap region of the graphical display,
• wherein interaction by a user, via the graphical interface, with the overlap region causes a playback, via a speaker, of at least a portion of a media content item that is in both the first grouping and the second grouping,
• wherein each media content item of the corpus is tagged with at least one tag representing a class that media content item belongs to, said tag being stored as an attribute linked to the media content item, and
• wherein the first grouping and the second grouping of media content items represent media content items of a first population in groups of manageable size and, by a preset maximum differential, of comparable size to one another in accordance with a classification scheme based on the respective classes of the media content items of the corpus.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

• one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:
• provide, via a graphical interface, a graphical display, a first graphical element of the graphical display representing a first grouping of media content items from a corpus of media content items stored on at least one storage device, and a second graphical element of the graphical display representing a second grouping of media content items from the corpus of media content items, the first graphical element and the second graphical element partially overlapping in an overlap region of the graphical display;
• and
• in response to an interaction of a user, via the graphical interface, with the overlap region, cause a playback, via a speaker, of at least a portion of a media content item that is in both the first grouping and the second grouping,
• wherein each media content item of the corpus is tagged with at least one tag representing a class that media content item belongs to, said tag being stored as an attribute linked to the media content item, and
• wherein the first grouping and the second grouping of media content items represent media content items of a first population in groups of manageable size and, by a preset maximum differential, of comparable size to one another in accordance with a classification scheme based on the respective classes of the media content items of the corpus.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors adapted to:
• select, from a corpus of media content items stored on at least one storage device, a population of media content items to be represented, via a graphical interface, on a graphical display, wherein each media content item of the corpus is tagged with at least one tag representing a class that media content item belongs to, said tag being stored as an attribute linked to the media content item;
• choose at least a first grouping and a second grouping of media content items from the population of media content items, each of the first and second groupings having at least a predefined minimum number of the media content items relative to the population and at most a predefined maximum number of the media content items relative to the population, wherein the first and second groupings of media content items represent media content items of a first population in groups of manageable size and, by a preset maximum differential, of comparable size to one another in accordance with a classification scheme based on the respective classes of the media content items of the corpus;
• display, on the graphical display via the graphical interface, a first graphical element representing the first grouping of media content items;
• and
• display, on the graphical display via the graphical interface, a second graphical element representing the second grouping of media content items,
• wherein the first graphical element and the second graphical element partially overlap on the graphical display.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising:

• one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:
• select, from a corpus of media content items stored on at least one storage device, a population of media content items to be represented, via a graphical interface, on a graphical display, wherein each media content item of the corpus is tagged with at least one tag representing a class that media content item belongs to, said tag being stored as an attribute linked to the media content item;
• choose at least a first grouping and a second grouping of media content items from the population of media content items, each of the first and second groupings having at least a predefined minimum number of the media content items relative to the population and at most a predefined maximum number of the media content items relative to the population, wherein the first and second groupings of media content items represent media content items of a first population in groups of manageable size and, by a preset maximum differential, of comparable size to one another in accordance with a classification scheme based on the respective classes of the media content items of the corpus;
• provide, on the graphical display via the graphical interface, a first graphical element representing the first grouping of media content items;
• and
• provide, on the graphical display via the graphical interface, a second graphical element representing the second grouping of media content items,
• wherein the first graphical element and the second graphical element partially overlap on the graphical display.

A system, comprising:

• one or more processors adapted to:
• select a population of media content items from a corpus of media content items, stored on at least one storage device, to be represented, via a graphical interface on a graphical display, wherein each media content item of the corpus is tagged with at least one tag representing a class that media content item belongs to, said tag being stored as an attribute linked to the media content item;
• and
• choose at least a first grouping and a second grouping of media content items from the population of media content items, wherein the first and second groupings of media content items represent media content items of a first population in groups of manageable size and, by a preset maximum differential, of comparable size to one another in accordance with a classification scheme based on the respective classes of the media content items of the corpus;
• wherein the choose includes one or more of:
• a) maximizing the number of media content items from the population within at least one of the groupings,
• b) excluding a pair of groupings that share more than a first threshold number of media content items, and
• c) identifying at least two groupings that differ from each other in number of media content items by less than a second threshold number of media content items.

A method, comprising:

• selecting a population of media content items from a corpus of media content items, stored on at least one storage device, to be represented, via a graphical interface, on a graphical display, wherein each media content item of the corpus is tagged with at least one tag representing a class that media content item belongs to, said tag being stored as an attribute linked to the media content item;
• and
• choosing at least a first grouping and a second grouping of media content items from the population of media content items, wherein the first and second groupings of media content items represent media content items of a first population in groups of manageable size and, by a preset maximum differential, of comparable size to one another in accordance with a classification scheme based on the respective classes of the media content items of the corpus;
• wherein the choosing includes one or more of:
• a) maximizing the number of media content items from the population within at least one of the groupings,
• b) excluding a pair of groupings that share more than a first threshold number of media content items, and
• c) identifying at least two groupings that differ from each other in number of media content items by less than a second threshold number of media content items.