TreeMaps

Treemaps are a family of algorithms that are space-filling partitions of a two-dimensional area.

Libraries

• http://treemap.sourceforge.net/ - treemap java library
• http://jtreemap.sourceforge.net/ - another java library for treemaps
• http://search.cpan.org/~spditner/Treemap-0.2/Treemap/Squarified.pm - perl text based
• http://search.cpan.org/~ofeyaikon/Gtk2-Ex-TreeMap-0.02/lib/Gtk2/Ex/TreeMap.pm - perl gtk2 screenshot
• http://wiki.tcl.tk/12528 - tcl/tk

Disk space applications

• an interactive interface is highly recommended
  • a simple image just won't do for the quantity of objects that are found on the average hard drive.
• http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/ - unix/linux/bsd - looks sweeet!
• http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/kdirstat/ - kde
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/index.shtml - java
  • slow
  • out of memory errors on large directories: java -Xmx256m -jar Treemap.jar
• http://www.derlien.com/downloads/index.html - os x
• http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab.html - gnome
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/treeviz.shtml - mac classic
• http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ - windows only
• http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html - windows only

Papers

• http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/index.shtml - history and overview
• http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~kerwin/infovis/treemap-survey.html
• http://iv.slis.indiana.edu/sw/treemap.html - More information on treemaps
• http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/sunburst/ - suburst - radial treemap
• http://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/stm.pdf - aesthetically pleasing rectangle algorithm

Online

• Google news
  • http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
  • http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/
  • http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/31/2332203.shtml

• del.icio.us
  • http://codecubed.com/map.html

3d tree maps

• http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/papers/cube.pdf
• http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1536/2004/04/LTU-TR-0404-SE.pdf

Internal Pointers

• DataVisualization
• UnixGeekTools - other great tools for unix geeks