Tree-maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures
| Title | Tree-maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 1991 |
| Authors | Johnson B, Shneiderman B |
| Conference Name | , IEEE Conference on Visualization, 1991. Visualization '91, Proceedings |
| Date Published | 1991/10/22/25 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN Number | 0-8186-2245-8 |
| Keywords | Computer displays, Computer Graphics, Computer science, Data analysis, display space, Educational institutions, Feedback, hierarchical information structures, HUMANS, Laboratories, Libraries, Marine vehicles, rectangular region, semantic information, space-filling approach, tree-map visualization technique, trees (mathematics), Two dimensional displays, Visualization |
| Abstract | A method for visualizing hierarchically structured information is described. 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. Tree-maps can depict both the structure and content of the hierarchy. However, the approach is best suited to hierarchies in which the content of the leaf nodes and the structure of the hierarchy are of primary importance, and the content information associated with internal nodes is largely derived from their children |
| DOI | 10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175815 |