Patent ID: 8793619

Claim:
A graphical user control for a multidimensional dataset, comprising: a graphics box displayed on a computer screen, the graphics box having a plurality of display edges, the graphics box indicating the multi-dimensional dataset; a selector box displayed within the graphics box, the selector box configured to be resized, the resizing indicating a subset selection of a subset of a multi-dimensional dataset, the selector box having a plurality of edges, each of the edges having at least two faces; and a special-purpose computer having computer instructions configured to retrieve data from the multi-dimensional dataset based on the subset selection; receive a selection of one of the faces of one of the edges associated with a viewing direction of the subset selection; display the data in the graphics box according to the received viewing direction; correlate one of the faces of one of the edges with one of the display edges of the graphics box; mark the correlated one of the faces and one of the display edges with identical indicia; and orient the data based on the correlated one of the faces and one of the display edges.