[wdmmg-dev] Antw.: Compare-o-Tron B

Fri Jul 8 11:31:10 UTC 2011

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Gregor Aisch <mail at driven-by-data.net> wrote:
>
> Am 08.07.2011 um 12:59 schrieb Friedrich Lindenberg:
>
> Yeah, bar charts would be good, while Treemaps IMO introduce the idea
> of "a whole" that we need to get right then (i.e. have 60% of the
> treemap gray, and then a 39% box for defence and a 1% box for aid). If
> we do 1 vs. 1 bar charts (i.e. one bar with different color sections
> and a line in the middle), we get the "planned vs actual spending" vis
> half done at the same time. This is one is second on my very personal
> todo list :-)
>
>
> The main idea behind the introduction of treemaps was to allow people to
> create their own Billion-Dollar-O-Grams. I agree with you on the false
> implication of a whole that doesn't exist, but this is also true for
> McCandless treemap. Maybe we could clarify the independence of the
> individual rectangles by adding some whitespace in between (like McCandless
> did). Also we could leave some space not filled with rectangles by using a
> less strict space-filling algorithm.

+1

Since that also means getting rid of the Jit-based treemaps which are
a mess and need to die.

- Fr.