Patent ID: 7707200

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for providing a variable usage report in a modeling environment, said method including: receiving, at a computer, a variable classification request from a client for a plurality of variables associated with model data, wherein said model data includes variable data, and wherein said variable data relates to said plurality of variables, and wherein a variable in said plurality of variables includes a variable identifier; reading, by said computer, variable data from a database based on said variable identifier, wherein said variable data includes a business unit identifier and a classification identifier; creating, by said computer, a first subset of said variable data based on said business unit identifier; creating, by said computer, a second subset of said first subset based on said classification identifier; and, acquiring, by said computer, performance data relating to said second subset within a timeframe parameter and a presentation parameter, wherein said performance data includes dependency data and a variable score relating to each variable in said second subset; analyzing, by said computer, said dependency data relating to said second subset, wherein said dependency data relates to a transfer of information exchanged between said each variable in said second subset, and wherein said information includes at least one of accuracy of said information, an amount of said information, a transfer rate of said information, or a processing rate of said information; determining, by said computer, an impact of each of said second subset, by analyzing said dependency data; formatting, by said computer, said second subset according to said variable classification request and said performance data to create variable classification data, wherein said variable classification data is transformed into said variable usage report.