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While I was trying out Ubuntu, there was a view of disk usage that used this kind of circular layout. And it confused me. Does the position on the circle indica
by neogodless 6y ago
While I was trying out Ubuntu, there was a view of disk usage that used this kind of circular layout. And it confused me. Does the position on the circle indicate hierarchy? I don't know just looking at it why things are where they are on the circle. Am I missing something that others find intuitive?
- devxpy 6y agoThe arcs on the circle represent percentages, like on a pie chart
- lights0123 6y agoBy the way that app was https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer
- Izkata 6y agoAssuming sibling comment is right and it was baobab, mouse over any part of the circular layout and a tooltip will tell you that directory and how much it uses, and other markers will point at and label the child directories that use the most space. The center circle is the directory you've chosen to analyze, the next ring out is the immediate subdirectories of it, the ring after that is the next level of subdirectories, etc. Baobab also has a toggle below the sunburst that switches to a nested-rectangle view that might be a lot more intuitive for you. It's definitely more useful for me when trying to see relative usage across the whole drive, but I like the sunburst when looking for the largest sibling subdirectories.
- mypalmike 6y agoPresumably you are taking about a hierarchical pie chart (wikipedia refers to it as a "ring chart" which may be the common terminology?). Perhaps not immediately intuitive but once you understand it, it's a great visualization tool. I first encountered them as visualizations for IP address management.