Patent ID: 8350856

Claim:
A method to display temporally variant information, the method comprising: using at least one computer processor, generating a display of a common baseline value indication for first and second data items, the common baseline value indication representing respective first and second base values for the first and second data items as a first time instance; and generating a display of first and second deviation indicators, relative to the common baseline value indication, for each of the first and second data items, the first and second deviation indicators: representing respective first and second deviation values, relative to the respective first and second base values, for the first and second data items at a second time instance; visually identifying each of the respective first and second deviation values as being at least one of positive or negative relative to the respective first and second base values: and generating a display of a segmented graph, the first deviation indicator being displayed within a first segment of the segmented graph and the second deviation indicator being displayed within a second segment of the segmented graph, and displaying the common baseline value indication with respect to each of the first and second segments of the segmented graph, wherein the first and second segments of the segmented graph are sized according to first and second quantity values for the first and second data items respectively.