TreeMap.Net

MS Research has been working on an interesting thing: .NET components that display hierarchical data as a set of nested boxes.
For questions or comments, go to the microsoft.public.research.netscan.discussion newsgroup.

It seems that this tool was used first to do a newsgroups survey and analyze their importance in cyberspace.

The site C2i give an example on how to use TreeMap to show the space files are using on an hard drive.



Again amazing thing from MS Research.

 

4 Comments

  • Yeah, look at the Map of the Market. I love the size of MSFT's block on that map.



    Signed,

    Huge MSFT fan.

  • "It's ingenuous to say that Treemaps are a research project at a Dutch University when the concept was originally developed at the University of Maryland College Park by Dr. Ben Shneiderman"

    TU Eindhoven claims: SequoiaView is a disk browsing tool based on the principle of treemaps, with one unique feature added, namely Cushion Treemaps, invented by Jack van Wijk.



    But you're right, Treemaps are invented by Shneiderman and Johnson in the late 1980's

  • "It's ingenuous to say that Treemaps are a research project at a Dutch University when the concept was originally developed at the University of Maryland College Park by Dr. Ben Shneiderman"

    TU Eindhoven claims: SequoiaView is a disk browsing tool based on the principle of treemaps, with one unique feature added, namely Cushion Treemaps, invented by Jack van Wijk.



    But you're right, Treemaps are invented by Shneiderman and Johnson in the late 1980's

  • "It's ingenuous to say that Treemaps are a research project at a Dutch University when the concept was originally developed at the University of Maryland College Park by Dr. Ben Shneiderman"

    TU Eindhoven claims: SequoiaView is a disk browsing tool based on the principle of treemaps, with one unique feature added, namely Cushion Treemaps, invented by Jack van Wijk.



    But you're right, Treemaps are invented by Shneiderman and Johnson in the late 1980's

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