Patent ID: 7216116

Claim:
A method for visualizing data from a stored data set, comprising: retrieving a plurality of data records from the stored data set, wherein each record includes a plurality of fields, automatically detecting from the data records retrieved from the stored data set a minimum value and a maximum value for a data range for each of at least a plurality of the fields in the data records retrieved from the stored data set, automatically assigning a display query device to each of the plurality of fields, automatically assigning scales to the display query devices for each of the plurality of fields based on the automatically detected minimum and maximum values, automatically assigning an order to the display query devices for each of the plurality of fields based on information in the stored data set, displaying a graphical visualization of relationships between at least a subset of the data records retrieved from the stored data set, displaying the display query devices in the older automatically assigned to them, sensing adjustment by the user of one or more of the query devices, and updating the graphical visualization based on the sensed adjustments of the query devices.