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Also known as treemapping, tree map

thumb|Treemap of Singapore's exports by product category, 2012. The Product Exports Treemaps are one of the most recent applications of these kind of visualizations, developed by the Harvard-MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity.

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Subclass of
algorithm
Image
Gradient grouped treemap.jpg
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ACM Classification Code (2012)
10010889
time of discovery or invention
1992-00-00
discoverer or inventor
Ben Shneiderman
Commons category
Treemaps
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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Tiling algorithms
  • Rectangular treemaps
  • Convex treemaps
  • Orthoconvex treemaps
  • Other treemaps
  • History
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Treemap of Singapore's exports by product category, 2012. The Product Exports Treemaps are one of the most recent applications of these kind of visualizations, developed by the Harvard-MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity.

In information visualization and computing, treemapping is a method for displaying hierarchical data using nested figures, usually rectangles.

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