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Treemaps

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Introduced by Ben Shneiderman in 1991, a treemap recursively subdivides area into rectangles. As with adjacency diagrams, the size of any node in the tree is quickly revealed. This example uses color to encode different packages of the Flare visualization toolkit, and area to encode file size. “Squarified” treemaps use approximately square rectangles, which offer better readability and size estimation than naive “slice-and-dice” subdivision. Fancier algorithms such as Voronoi and jigsaw treemaps also exist but are less common.

Interact with this example by using the search box to filter classes by name.

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Source

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Treemap</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ex.css?3.2"/>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../protovis-r3.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="flare.js"></script>
    <style type="text/css">

#fig {
  width: 860px;
}

#footer {
  font: 24pt helvetica neue;
  color: #666;
}

input {
  font: 24pt helvetica neue;
  background: none;
  border: none;
  outline: 0;
}

#title {
  float: right;
  text-align: right;
}

    </style>
  </head>
  <body><div id="center"><div id="fig">
    <div id="title"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript+protovis">

/** Computes the full class name of a given node. */
function title(d) {
  return d.parentNode ? (title(d.parentNode) + "." + d.nodeName) : d.nodeName;
}

var re = "",
    color = pv.Colors.category19().by(function(d) d.parentNode.nodeName)
    nodes = pv.dom(flare).root("flare").nodes();

var vis = new pv.Panel()
    .width(860)
    .height(568);

var treemap = vis.add(pv.Layout.Treemap)
    .nodes(nodes)
    .round(true);

treemap.leaf.add(pv.Panel)
    .fillStyle(function(d) color(d).alpha(title(d).match(re) ? 1 : .2))
    .strokeStyle("#fff")
    .lineWidth(1)
    .antialias(false);

treemap.label.add(pv.Label)
    .textStyle(function(d) pv.rgb(0, 0, 0, title(d).match(re) ? 1 : .2));

vis.render();

/** Counts the number of matching classes, updating the title element. */
function count() {
  var classes = 0, bytes = 0, total = 0;
  for (var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
    var n = nodes[i];
    if(n.firstChild) continue;
    total += n.nodeValue;
    if (title(n).match(re)) {
      classes++;
      bytes += n.nodeValue;
    }
  }
  var percent = bytes / total * 100;
  document.getElementById("title").innerHTML
      = classes + " classes; "
      + bytes + " bytes ("
      + percent.toFixed(percent < 10) + "%).";
}

/** Updates the visualization and count when a new query is entered. */
function update(query) {
  if (query != re) {
    re = new RegExp(query, "i");
    count();
    vis.render();
  }
}

count();

    </script>
    <div id="footer">
      <label for="search">search: </label>
      <input type="text" id="search" onkeyup="update(this.value)">
    </div>
  </div></div></body>
</html>

Data

var flare = {
  analytics: {
    cluster: {
      AgglomerativeCluster: 3938,
      CommunityStructure: 3812,
      HierarchicalCluster: 6714,
      MergeEdge: 743
    },
    graph: {
      BetweennessCentrality: 3534,
      LinkDistance: 5731,
      MaxFlowMinCut: 7840,
      ShortestPaths: 5914,
      SpanningTree: 3416
    },
    optimization: {
      AspectRatioBanker: 7074
    }
  },
  animate: {
    Easing: 17010,
    FunctionSequence: 5842,
    interpolate: {
      ArrayInterpolator: 1983,
      ColorInterpolator: 2047,
      DateInterpolator: 1375,
      Interpolator: 8746,
      MatrixInterpolator: 2202,
      NumberInterpolator: 1382,
      ObjectInterpolator: 1629,
      PointInterpolator: 1675,
      RectangleInterpolator: 2042
    },
    ISchedulable: 1041,
    Parallel: 5176,
    Pause: 449,
    Scheduler: 5593,
    Sequence: 5534,
    Transition: 9201,
    Transitioner: 19975,
    TransitionEvent: 1116,
    Tween: 6006
  },
  data: {
    converters: {
      Converters: 721,
      DelimitedTextConverter: 4294,
      GraphMLConverter: 9800,
      IDataConverter: 1314,
      JSONConverter: 2220
    },
    DataField: 1759,
    DataSchema: 2165,
    DataSet: 586,
    DataSource: 3331,
    DataTable: 772,
    DataUtil: 3322
  },
  display: {
    DirtySprite: 8833,
    LineSprite: 1732,
    RectSprite: 3623,
    TextSprite: 10066
  },
  flex: {
    FlareVis: 4116
  },
  physics: {
    DragForce: 1082,
    GravityForce: 1336,
    IForce: 319,
    NBodyForce: 10498,
    Particle: 2822,
    Simulation: 9983,
    Spring: 2213,
    SpringForce: 1681
  },
  query: {
    AggregateExpression: 1616,
    And: 1027,
    Arithmetic: 3891,
    Average: 891,
    BinaryExpression: 2893,
    Comparison: 5103,
    CompositeExpression: 3677,
    Count: 781,
    DateUtil: 4141,
    Distinct: 933,
    Expression: 5130,
    ExpressionIterator: 3617,
    Fn: 3240,
    If: 2732,
    IsA: 2039,
    Literal: 1214,
    Match: 3748,
    Maximum: 843,
    methods: {
      add: 593,
      and: 330,
      average: 287,
      count: 277,
      distinct: 292,
      div: 595,
      eq: 594,
      fn: 460,
      gt: 603,
      gte: 625,
      iff: 748,
      isa: 461,
      lt: 597,
      lte: 619,
      max: 283,
      min: 283,
      mod: 591,
      mul: 603,
      neq: 599,
      not: 386,
      or: 323,
      orderby: 307,
      range: 772,
      select: 296,
      stddev: 363,
      sub: 600,
      sum: 280,
      update: 307,
      variance: 335,
      where: 299,
      xor: 354,
      _: 264
    },
    Minimum: 843,
    Not: 1554,
    Or: 970,
    Query: 13896,
    Range: 1594,
    StringUtil: 4130,
    Sum: 791,
    Variable: 1124,
    Variance: 1876,
    Xor: 1101
  },
  scale: {
    IScaleMap: 2105,
    LinearScale: 1316,
    LogScale: 3151,
    OrdinalScale: 3770,
    QuantileScale: 2435,
    QuantitativeScale: 4839,
    RootScale: 1756,
    Scale: 4268,
    ScaleType: 1821,
    TimeScale: 5833
  },
  util: {
    Arrays: 8258,
    Colors: 10001,
    Dates: 8217,
    Displays: 12555,
    Filter: 2324,
    Geometry: 10993,
    heap: {
      FibonacciHeap: 9354,
      HeapNode: 1233
    },
    IEvaluable: 335,
    IPredicate: 383,
    IValueProxy: 874,
    math: {
      DenseMatrix: 3165,
      IMatrix: 2815,
      SparseMatrix: 3366
    },
    Maths: 17705,
    Orientation: 1486,
    palette: {
      ColorPalette: 6367,
      Palette: 1229,
      ShapePalette: 2059,
      SizePalette: 2291
    },
    Property: 5559,
    Shapes: 19118,
    Sort: 6887,
    Stats: 6557,
    Strings: 22026
  },
  vis: {
    axis: {
      Axes: 1302,
      Axis: 24593,
      AxisGridLine: 652,
      AxisLabel: 636,
      CartesianAxes: 6703
    },
    controls: {
      AnchorControl: 2138,
      ClickControl: 3824,
      Control: 1353,
      ControlList: 4665,
      DragControl: 2649,
      ExpandControl: 2832,
      HoverControl: 4896,
      IControl: 763,
      PanZoomControl: 5222,
      SelectionControl: 7862,
      TooltipControl: 8435
    },
    data: {
      Data: 20544,
      DataList: 19788,
      DataSprite: 10349,
      EdgeSprite: 3301,
      NodeSprite: 19382,
      render: {
        ArrowType: 698,
        EdgeRenderer: 5569,
        IRenderer: 353,
        ShapeRenderer: 2247
      },
      ScaleBinding: 11275,
      Tree: 7147,
      TreeBuilder: 9930
    },
    events: {
      DataEvent: 2313,
      SelectionEvent: 1880,
      TooltipEvent: 1701,
      VisualizationEvent: 1117
    },
    legend: {
      Legend: 20859,
      LegendItem: 4614,
      LegendRange: 10530
    },
    operator: {
      distortion: {
        BifocalDistortion: 4461,
        Distortion: 6314,
        FisheyeDistortion: 3444
      },
      encoder: {
        ColorEncoder: 3179,
        Encoder: 4060,
        PropertyEncoder: 4138,
        ShapeEncoder: 1690,
        SizeEncoder: 1830
      },
      filter: {
        FisheyeTreeFilter: 5219,
        GraphDistanceFilter: 3165,
        VisibilityFilter: 3509
      },
      IOperator: 1286,
      label: {
        Labeler: 9956,
        RadialLabeler: 3899,
        StackedAreaLabeler: 3202
      },
      layout: {
        AxisLayout: 6725,
        BundledEdgeRouter: 3727,
        CircleLayout: 9317,
        CirclePackingLayout: 12003,
        DendrogramLayout: 4853,
        ForceDirectedLayout: 8411,
        IcicleTreeLayout: 4864,
        IndentedTreeLayout: 3174,
        Layout: 7881,
        NodeLinkTreeLayout: 12870,
        PieLayout: 2728,
        RadialTreeLayout: 12348,
        RandomLayout: 870,
        StackedAreaLayout: 9121,
        TreeMapLayout: 9191
      },
      Operator: 2490,
      OperatorList: 5248,
      OperatorSequence: 4190,
      OperatorSwitch: 2581,
      SortOperator: 2023
    },
    Visualization: 16540
  }
};
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