Iterative Querying Mechanism for Data Aggregation and Visualization

Abstract

A system and method for implementing an iterative query mechanism to facilitate distributed aggregation and interactive visualization of data is disclosed. At least, the method includes receiving user interaction in association with rendering a visualization of hierarchical data, determining a query based on the user interaction, distributing the query in parallel to a cluster of computing devices, wherein each computing device in the cluster locally generates and prunes a tree based on processing the query, receiving a plurality of trees from the cluster of computing devices responsive to distributing the query, merging the plurality of trees into an aggregated tree, and rendering the visualization of hierarchical data based on the aggregated tree.

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