Tree-Maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures

  • Authors:
  • Brian Johnson;Ben Shneiderman

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD;University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • VIS '91 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

This paper describes a novel method for the visualization of hierarchically structured information. The Tree-Map visualization technique makes 100% use of the available display space, mapping the full hierarchy onto a rectangular region in a space-filling manner. This efficient use of space allows very large hierarchies to be displayed in their entirety and facilitates the presentation of semantic information.