Treemap
[Johnson and Shneiderman, 1991]
Treemaps [Johnson and Shneiderman, 1991] are a rectangular, space-filling approach for visualizing hierarchical data. They use 2D visualization of trees where the tree nodes are encapsulated into the area of their parent node. The size of the single nodes is determined proportionally in relation to all other nodes of the hierarchy by an attribute of the node.
External Links
- Home of Treemap (HCIL, University of Maryland)
- Treemap related Software Applications
- TreeMap Java Library
- JIDE TreeMap: Commercial Java Library
- Treemaps of your own files, spreadsheets, databases, processes etc
- A very fast tool that can create treemaps that look like business graphics
- Web Based Visual Exploration of Patent Information
- Macrofocus TreeMap
References
- [HCIL, 2003] Human-Computer Interaction Lab / University of Maryland, Treemap. Created at: August 5, 2003. Retrieved at: October 3, 2005. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/
- [Johnson and Shneiderman, 1991] Johnson, B. and Shneiderman, B. Treemaps: A Space-Filling Approach to the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures. In Proceedings of the IEEE Information Visualization ’91, pages 275–282, IEEE, 1991.