Treemap

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Project description

News and Events

On May 31, 2001, the Treemap Implementations and Applications workshop was held in conjunction with the HCIL 18th Annual Symposium and Open House.

Participants

Catherine Plaisant
Ben Shneiderman
Gouthami Chintalapani, Graduate Student (Systems Engineering)
Aleks Aris, Graduate Student (Computer Science)
with the participation of Ben Bederson, Jean Daniel Fekete and Susan Grodsky.

Also, over the years, many other students have participated in some way or another in the development of various HCIL Treemap versions: Brian Johnson, the original implementer, but also David Turo, Ketan Babaria, Steve Betten, Jim Blowitski, Raghuveera Chalasani, Evren Sirin, Fusun Yaman, Marko Teittinen, Toshiyuki Asahi, Ani Jain, Niem Dang, Nilani Aluthgedara (if we forgot your name... let me know)

Software/Download/Licensing

For commercial use (e.g. internal use in a company or institution, inclusion in a product offered for sale):
Treemap is available for licensing. Please contact the University of Maryland Office of Technology Commercialization. Our contact there is Gayatri Varma (gayatri@umd.edu ) or call 301-405-2960

For NON commercial use ONLY (e.g. academic use, evaluation by a single individual in a company or institution for a month):
Download Treemap 4.1 (Requires Java 1.4)
This is a fully functional version of Treemap, and you can read in the online documentation how to create your own data files. You can also try the applet version (also requires Java 1.4 plugin) (Having problems with the applet?).

Comments, suggestions, or questions to treemap@cs.umd.edu

Recent Sponsors

We would like to thank ChevronTexaco, Microsoft and the Hive Group for their support of the latest work.

Publications and reports

For a paper on the Treemap algorithms:

Bederson, B.B., Shneiderman, B., and Wattenberg, M.
Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 21, (4), October 2002, 833-854.
HCIL-2001-18 , CS-TR-4277 , UMIACS-TR-2001-57

For papers about some of our applications:


Society of Petroleum Engineers conference, 2003
Project Management Institute Conference, July 2004
Treemaps to Visualize Gene Ontologies: an early exploration and a later 2004 paper

Most recent, about Flexible hierarchy:


Int. Conf on InfoVis, London 2004

MANY PAPERS have been written about Treemap at HCIL...
For a full list: run a search on TREEMAP in the HCIL technical reports database.

Related sites

HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF TREEMAP WORK over the years at HCIL and elsewhere
(edited by Ben Shneiderman)


SpaceTree: another HCIL tree browsing tool

InfoVis2003 Contest (on tree visualization)

HCIL Annual Symposium and Open House

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