Patent ID: 8190619

Claim:
A data visualization system, comprising: multi-source record access logic operative to: access records belonging to a first data source including a first set of data fields, and access records belonging to a second data source including a second set of data fields, query device presentation logic operative to present a plurality of query devices that are responsive to user interaction with a pointing device and that correspond to fields from the first set and fields from the second set, wherein at least one of the query devices is a common query device that is operative to filter data from both the first data source and the second data source, combined visualization logic operative to display one or more visualizations corresponding to records accessed in the first data source and in the second data source, wherein the one or more visualizations are responsive to filtering functions defined by the at least one common query device to update the visualizations, and wherein different movements of the pointing device result in different changes to a corresponding filtering function, wherein the query device presentation logic and the combined visualization logic are operative to display visualizations from the first and second data sources when they are each located in different places while allowing the first data source and the second data source to remain at the different places, wherein the query device presentation logic and the combined visualization logic are operative to display visualizations from the first and second data sources when they are each formatted with different formats without requiring the user to reformat either the first data source or the second data source, and common record association logic operative to associate one or more fields in the first data source with one or more fields in the second data source.