Website review: Treemaps | EagerEyes.org
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laodan discovered 4 weeks ago- Treemaps in EagerEyes by Robert Kosara
Treemaps are the single most used 'real' InfoVis technique there is. Interestingly, they have proven to be even more useful for unstructured data than for the hierarchies which they were originally developed for. Here is a brief history, discussion of current practical uses, and of the importance of treemaps for the adoption and understanding of information visualization. Treemaps The history of treemaps Beyond Treemaps Visualization has long been used by scientists to get a better grasp of what happens at the micro and macro levels. This has been extended to the field of information in order to make sense of what is going on amidst the saturation and overload that assails us daily. It's all about detecting the trends, rhythms, tendencies and patterns that operate within a given complexity. We can then zoom on a trend or a pattern and pick the information that has been accessed by the most people for example. Visualization let's us use our eyes to see something that our eyes normally would not see. It helps expand our visual range to deeper levels of knowledge and helps us transmitting to the brain a visual picture that sheds light on something the brain left on itself would have to labor in order to abstract an idea out of the complexity at hand. Visualization simplifies and orders the perceived chaos of multiplicity and complexity in a way that is similar to what the brain does normally.
- Treemaps in EagerEyes by Robert Kosara
