Data aware interface controls

Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided in accordance with an example embodiment in order to allow for user interaction with a graphical representation of a set of data using one or more interface controls, wherein the graphical representation of the data and the interface control(s) are rendered to a display device. In example embodiments, information identifying data to be displayed is received. One or more interesting data points within the data to be displayed are identified. One or more interesting data windows are defined based on the identified interesting data points. A mapping is defined from a set of control position of an interface control to values of a variable of the data. The interface control corresponds to the variable. A graphical representation of the data and the interface control are rendered to a display device for user interaction with the graphical representation of the data.