TY  - GEN
A1  - Scheibel, Willy
A1  - Trapp, Matthias
A1  - Limberger, Daniel
A1  - Döllner, Jürgen Roland Friedrich
T1  - A taxonomy of treemap visualization techniques
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Reihe der Digital Engineering Fakultät
N2  - A treemap is a visualization that has been specifically designed to facilitate the exploration of tree-structured data and, more general, hierarchically structured data. The family of visualization techniques that use a visual metaphor for parent-child relationships based “on the property of containment” (Johnson, 1993) is commonly referred to as treemaps. However, as the number of variations of treemaps grows, it becomes increasingly important to distinguish clearly between techniques and their specific characteristics. This paper proposes to discern between Space-filling Treemap TS, Containment Treemap TC, Implicit Edge Representation Tree TIE, and Mapped Tree TMT for classification of hierarchy visualization techniques and highlights their respective properties. This taxonomy is created as a hyponymy, i.e., its classes have an is-a relationship to one another: TS TC TIE TMT. With this proposal, we intend to stimulate a discussion on a more unambiguous classification of treemaps and, furthermore, broaden what is understood by the concept of treemap itself.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Reihe der Digital Engineering Fakultät - 8 
KW  - treemaps
KW  - taxonomy
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-524693
IS  - 8
ER  -