Visual display of information using historical condition support and event profiles

摘要

A method, system and article of manufacture for providing a visual display of information that quickly conveys how information, as represented by data retrieved for a set of queries, may have changed over time is disclosed. By animating information retrieved for a plurality of queries, a visual display is created that conveys how a data in a database has changed over time. Users compose a query template specifying a plurality of queries. The query template further specifies a time period and frequency range over which the queries in the query template should be executed. After executing a query to retrieve data corresponding to each point in time, a snapshot of the database is available to generate the visual display of information.