A heuristic extending the Squarified treemapping algorithm
Antonio Cesarano, FIlomena Ferrucci, Mario Torre

TL;DR
This paper introduces a heuristic extension to the Squarified Treemap algorithm that improves aspect ratios and homogeneity of treemap visualizations while maintaining low computational costs.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel heuristic that enhances the Squarified Treemap technique by optimizing rectangle aspect ratios and item homogeneity.
Findings
Improved aspect ratios in treemaps
Higher homogeneity among items
Low computational impact of the heuristic
Abstract
A heuristic extending the Squarified Treemap technique for the representation of hierarchical information as treemaps is presented. The original technique gives high quality treemap views, since items are laid out with rectangles that approximate squares, allowing easy comparison and selection operations. New key steps, with a low computational impact, have been introduced to yield treemaps with even better aspect ratios and higher homogeneity among items.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsData Visualization and Analytics · Software Engineering Research · Semantic Web and Ontologies
