![]() ![]() It’s probably easier to show it than to explain it: The size and color of each block mean something”. There has to be a better way.Ī treemap “is a bunch of squares, arranged to form a mosaic. Or a list of search results (“1.7 gazillion matches - click here for next 10 results”). We have all this fascinating data at our fingertips and yet we have decided the most effective way of viewing it is in…a table. One of the things that bugs me about our oh-so-cool information revolution is this: We show such little imagination in how we actually look at that information. In this week’s WSJ.com column I wrote (subscription only, I’m afraid) about treemaps, tools which allow you to look at data differently: Update Feb 2007: Just came across some cool stuff from digg labs (the guys behind digg) who haev some coold stuff I’ve added below.
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