1. A computer implemented method comprising: under control of a computing environment, the computing environment comprising one or more physical computing systems configured to process large amounts of data, receiving, by the computing environment, data related to a plurality of points time; receiving, by the computing environment, data related to a one or more objects; for each of the plurality of points in time, creating an object time series of a duration by establishing one or more associations, each association comprising a mapping of at least one point in time with the one or more objects, wherein the one or more objects comprise properties and values; the one or more objects comprising at least one property which has at least one value that is non-numerical; and visually representing at least a portion of the non-numerical values associated with the one or more objects associated with the object time series, wherein the visual representation comprises displaying the non-numerical values in association with the respective plurality of points in time, wherein the method is performed using one or more processors.