Improving the visualization of hierarchies with treemaps: design issues and experimentation

  • Authors:
  • David Turo;Brian Johnson

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

  • Venue:
  • VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Controlled experiments with novice treemap users and real data highlight the strengths of treemaps and provide direction for improvement. Issues discussed include experimental results, layout algorithms, nesting offsets, labeling, animation and small multiple displays. Treemaps prove to be a potent tool for hierarchy display. The principles discussed are applicable to many information visualization situations.