A Brief History of Treemap Visualization

What is a Treemap? A treemap is a way of analysing large amounts of data in a small space.

A fantastic writeup about Treemaps and their History by the University of Maryland is available here.

I’m trying to use Circular Treemaps as a visualization tool for a project I’m working on. Since I’m not allowed to show it yet, I’ll borrow from another source.

Information visualization using Circular Treemaps: link

An interesting article on this by BBC.