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Tree-maps: A space filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures

Johnson et al., 1998

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Johnson B
Shneiderman B
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This paper describes a novel method for the visualization of hierarchically structured information. The treemap visualization technique makes 100% use of the available display space, mapping the full hierarchy onto a rectangular region in a space-filling manner. This …
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