Patent ID: 11880378
Assignee: TABLEAU SOFTWARE, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 1:
2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating and displaying the data visualization for the data source according to the layout type, the mark type, and the visual encodings specified on the block card comprises:
defining a level of detail according to dimension data fields specifying the visual encodings on the block card;
generating a query, for the block card, which specifies aggregation of each measure data field according to the dimension data fields in the level of detail;
executing the query to retrieve a set of tuples from the data source, each tuple including each of the data fields whose data field icon specifies a visual encoding, wherein each of the measure data fields is aggregated according to the level of detail; and
generating the data visualization in which each visual mark corresponds to a retrieved tuple.