Patent ID: 7071940

Claim:
A method of facilitating data visualization at a display unit of a computing device, comprising: receiving a user response to a data entry interface via a computer network, the user response defining a first data set and a second data set, data points in the first and second data sets including dependent variable values; generating a first chart in a first frame based on the first data set and a second chart in a second frame based on the second data set; and receiving a user-controlled position of a cursor in the first chart, the position of the cursor corresponding to a first data point in the first data set; determining a correspondence relationship between the first data point and at least one data point in the second data set; and modifying an appearance of the second chart to highlight the correspondence relationship between the at least one second data point in the second chart and the first data point as determined solely by the user-controlled position of the cursor in the first chart.