Abstract: A data visualization system is described herein that provides a user interface, such as for graphs of tabular data, that is more intuitive and faster to interact with than previous solutions. The system allows a user to directly interact with the interface through touch input by rotating, selecting, and viewing supplemental information. The user can perform various manipulations with simple input, such as touching particular choices to turn them on and off, dragging particular choices onto other choices to group the choices, and holding down on a particular group of choices to break apart the group. These types of interactions and the user interface provided by the system allow a user to quickly and efficiently switch between high-level visualization of data and a deeper dive into the underlying data, and to rearrange the data in ways that are meaningful to the user and that assist in consuming the data.

Abstract: A data comparison and insight system is described herein that visually facilitates comparison of two or more datasets and shares insights discovered by one user comparing the data with other users. The system receives input data that includes multiple dimensions, such as a matrix of responses to a survey question. A user may want to compare this data, setting two distinct points in one dimension so that the user can see the variation in the other dimension at these two points and compare it. Past systems treat these as two separate datasets and the visualization of these datasets is also done separately. The data comparison and insight system provides several chart types that integrate the data from both datasets and provide a unified visualization of the two or more datasets. This allows the system to present a data comparison visualization that provides a third dimension into the data.