A method and computer-executable program is disclosed for graphically rendering
information of a database which can be arranged in form of a table, and for extraction
associations between database records. An element and/or an arithmetic expression
computed from the records in the database can be associated with a graphic representation
consisting of instructions, such as setting a fill color, drawing a rectangle,
and so on. Graphic renditions can include tables, histograms, bar charts, timeline
displays, pie charts, and tree maps, as well as combinations of such displays.
The proposed visualization-rendering method is flexible and computationally fast,
since at most O(N) graphic instructions need to be generated for a database of
N records.
