Visualizing, Contextualizing and Evaluating Recommendations Generated Using Graph Neural Networks

A computer system for visual analysis of datasets, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory;
• wherein the memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors, and the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
• obtaining, from a recommender system that is trained to generate analytic asset recommendations, a plurality of recommendations to destination nodes for a source node of an input graph, wherein the input graph includes a plurality of nodes including the source node and the destination node, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes stores metadata for a respective analytic asset of a plurality of analytic assets, and wherein the input graph encodes asset lineage that captures relationships between the plurality of analytic assets;
• generating a data visualization for the plurality of recommendations, wherein the data visualization includes (i) a summary of the plurality of recommendations to the destination nodes, (ii) a comparison of the destination nodes, and (iii) a set of factors that contributed to one or more recommendations of the plurality of recommendations;
• and
• displaying the data visualization using a graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface includes a data region, a recommendation overview region and a recommendation detail region, wherein (i) the data region includes the summary of the plurality of recommendations to the destination nodes, (ii) the recommendation overview region includes the comparison of the destination nodes, and (iii) the recommendation detail region includes the set of factors that contributed to the one or more recommendations of the plurality of recommendations.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured for execution by a computer system having a display, one or more processors, and memory, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:

• obtaining, from a recommender system that is trained to generate analytic asset recommendations, a plurality of recommendations to destination nodes for a source node of an input graph, wherein the input graph includes a plurality of nodes including the source node and the destination node, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes stores metadata for a respective analytic asset of a plurality of analytic assets, and wherein the input graph encodes asset lineage that captures relationships between the plurality of analytic assets;
• generating a data visualization for the plurality of recommendations, wherein the data visualization includes (i) a summary of the plurality of recommendations to the destination nodes, (ii) a comparison of the destination nodes, and (iii) a set of factors that contributed to one or more recommendations of the plurality of recommendations;
• and
• displaying the data visualization using a graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface includes a data region, a recommendation overview region and a recommendation detail region, wherein (i) the data region includes the summary of the plurality of recommendations to the destination nodes, (ii) the recommendation overview region includes the comparison of the destination nodes, and (iii) the recommendation detail region includes the set of factors that contributed to the one or more recommendations of the plurality of recommendations.