Patent ID: 8230333

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for analyzing customer-based business data, comprising the steps of: streaming customer-based business data related to customers and their shopping transactions from data sources operatively coupled to the internet, including servers, computer systems and sensors, to a client computer system; displaying customer-based business data on a map or other geographic representation in a first window within a web browser on the client computer system; displaying customer-based business data on a timeline in the first or a second window within the web browser on the client computer system; linking and correlating the customer-based business data between the displays in the web browser to form mashup data; and displaying additional map layers comprising store locations wherein an additional map layer further comprises a representative store floor plan having at least one aisle and at least one shelf, and wherein the method further comprises zooming in to view sales and inventory data for a specific floor, a specific aisle, and a specific shelf of the store floor plan.