Patent ID: 8730242

Claim:
A method of performing time slice-based visual prediction, comprising: presenting for display a user-adjustable moveable element; applying smoothing to data values in a data set to generate smoothed data values, wherein moving the moveable element causes a smoothing time interval over which the smoothing is applied to change in length; calculating, by at least one processor, a weighted moving aggregate of the smoothed data values over previous time slices to predict data values; generating, by the at least one processor, a visual accuracy indicator to indicate a quality of prediction of the predicted data values at different times, wherein the visual accuracy indicator includes accuracy indications representing respective accuracies of the predicted data values, wherein moving the moveable element causes visual changing of the accuracy indications; presenting, in a visualization for display by a display device, data values from the data set and the predicted data values, wherein the data values from the data set and the predicted data values are represented as corresponding cells; and presenting the visual accuracy indicator including the accuracy indications for display by the display device.