Disk Usage Visualized: Treemap
August 29th, 2007

Version 2.0 features a treemap for files bigger than 100k. Thanks neurofuzzy for the php-treemap source code.
For those who want to skip the original technical paper on Tree visualization with Tree-maps:
Share ThisThe traditional approach to representing tree structures is as a rooted, directed graph with the root node at the top of the page and children nodes below the parent node with lines connecting them has a long discussion about this standard representation, especially why the root is at the top and he offers several alternatives including brief mention of a space-fillling approach . However, the remainder of his presentation and most other discussions of trees focus on various node and edge representiation. By contrast, this paper deals with a two-dimensional (2-) space-filling approach in which each node is a rectangle whose area is proportional to some attribute such as node size.
Shneiderman, B. (March 1991)
Tree visualization with treemaps: a 2-d space-filling approach
ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 11, 1 (Jan. 1992) 92-99.
Posted by Roland Rust
File under: Wordpress Plugins
See also:
- Find Us in dutch language (January 13th, 2008)
- Plugins in action: Mini-Slides (November 19th, 2007)
- Demo Mode 1.2 released (November 18th, 2007)
- Plugins in action: Mini-Slides on timbuktoons.tv (November 17th, 2007)
- Demo Mode 1.1 released (November 9th, 2007)


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