Improving the Visualization of Hierarchies with Treemaps: Design Issues and Experimentation

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: VISUALIZATION
• Authors: David Turo, B. Johnson
• Keywords: Information Visualization Situations, Novice Treemap Users, Small Multiple Displays, Visualization, VISUALIZATION 1992