1. A system that provides a canvas interface to facilitate summarization of analyses with respect to data included in a database, comprising: a user interface component that is operatively coupled to a database and a workspace, the user interface component receives an operation associated with an entity included in the database, the user interface component displays in the workspace a result of the operation; a documentation component that records to a data store a semantic history of both the operation and the entity; and a mapping component that graphically displays in a canvas a map of the semantic history, whereby the entity is represented in the map as a hub and the operation that acts on the entity is represented in the map as a spoke that radiates from the hub.