US Patent 9514155 Data presentation at different levels of detail

This disclosure describes a system and process for altering the presentation of data items to enable efficient presentation of large sets of data items. For example, if a data set includes 40,000 data items that are to be rendered as points at different geographic locations on a map, such as a map of the United States, rather than trying to render all 40,000 data items, the implementations described herein will process the data set to reduce the amount of data items that will be presented without losing the information that is visually provided.