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HN TreeMap

56 points by mnml_ 15y ago

rednum 15y ago
Links to 'ask hn' posts are broken (link to 'Ask Pg about hackers and painters' leads to: http://www.hackrnews.com/comments/2982185 http://www.hackrnews.com/comments/2982185) . Nice concept though!
- wglb 15y ago
  Interesting. That isn't happening for me.
geuis 15y ago
Sorry, I apologize if my question is banal, but what is the purpose? I don't see the use of displaying data in this way. On a side note, the animations between views are nice.
- anateus 15y ago
  Treemaps are fantastic for showing hierarchical + quantitative information in a single view (with at least another axis thrown in if you add coloring the boxes in). This view, however, is about as useful as using a pie chart--perhaps the intent was to correlate the points with share of total attention? On the other hand, I subscribe to the "piecharts are almost always evil and useless" school, and should in almost all cases be replaced with stacked bar charts (sideways preferably)--which the strip view is rather similar to.
  - va_coder 15y ago
    I still don't get the point of that over a list, like this: * 22% interest in tech papers * 21% in Apple advantage * 16% interest in ... As a side note, I usually only care for what the top 5 or so things are, and the percentages aren't that important.
    - anateus 15y ago
      Well, percentages aren't even "correct" unless you're saying "percent of total number of points on the front page". Since that total is non-constant, the percentages are almost meaningless. If suddenly someone posts a PG essay, which gets like 800 pts, everything's percentage would drop. You could, however, just have a list of pts and the titles... but then you get the front page of HN :)
vyrotek 15y ago
A neat visualization. Forgive me, but I had smirk on my face when I clicked the 'HN TreeMap' square and it loaded it again. It felt very recursive. :)
there 15y ago
shouldn't the font size be proportional to the size of the square?
tingletech 15y ago
Nicolas Garcia Belmonte's JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit -- http://thejit.org http://thejit.org -- is truly awesome. He has a lot of cool stuff in that library. http://thejit.org/demos/ http://thejit.org/demos/ I'm using the Radial Graph from TheJit in my "facebook for dead people" prototype http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?mode=RGraph&docId=Bush%20Vannevar%201890-1974-cr.xml http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?mode=RGraph&...
Raphael 15y ago
Reminds me of http://newsmap.jp/ http://newsmap.jp/
andyking 15y ago
I just get the webmail control panel for the web host OVH, asking me to choose between Squirrelmail, Roundcube, Horde etc.
wyclif 15y ago
Design-wise, this reminds me a lot of Newsmap: http://newsmap.jp/ http://newsmap.jp/

56 points by mnml_ 15y ago

Links to 'ask hn' posts are broken (link to 'Ask Pg about hackers and painters' leads to: http://www.hackrnews.com/comments/2982185 http://www.hackrnews.com/comments/2982185) . Nice concept though!

wglb 15y ago
Interesting. That isn't happening for me.

geuis 15y ago

Sorry, I apologize if my question is banal, but what is the purpose? I don't see the use of displaying data in this way. On a side note, the animations between views are nice.

anateus 15y ago
Treemaps are fantastic for showing hierarchical + quantitative information in a single view (with at least another axis thrown in if you add coloring the boxes in). This view, however, is about as useful as using a pie chart--perhaps the intent was to correlate the points with share of total attention? On the other hand, I subscribe to the "piecharts are almost always evil and useless" school, and should in almost all cases be replaced with stacked bar charts (sideways preferably)--which the strip view is rather similar to.
- va_coder 15y ago
  I still don't get the point of that over a list, like this: * 22% interest in tech papers * 21% in Apple advantage * 16% interest in ... As a side note, I usually only care for what the top 5 or so things are, and the percentages aren't that important.
  - anateus 15y ago
    Well, percentages aren't even "correct" unless you're saying "percent of total number of points on the front page". Since that total is non-constant, the percentages are almost meaningless. If suddenly someone posts a PG essay, which gets like 800 pts, everything's percentage would drop. You could, however, just have a list of pts and the titles... but then you get the front page of HN :)

vyrotek 15y ago

A neat visualization. Forgive me, but I had smirk on my face when I clicked the 'HN TreeMap' square and it loaded it again. It felt very recursive. :)

there 15y ago

shouldn't the font size be proportional to the size of the square?

tingletech 15y ago

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte's JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit -- http://thejit.org http://thejit.org -- is truly awesome. He has a lot of cool stuff in that library. http://thejit.org/demos/ http://thejit.org/demos/ I'm using the Radial Graph from TheJit in my "facebook for dead people" prototype http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?mode=RGraph&docId=Bush%20Vannevar%201890-1974-cr.xml http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?mode=RGraph&...

Raphael 15y ago

Reminds me of http://newsmap.jp/ http://newsmap.jp/

andyking 15y ago

I just get the webmail control panel for the web host OVH, asking me to choose between Squirrelmail, Roundcube, Horde etc.

wyclif 15y ago

Design-wise, this reminds me a lot of Newsmap: http://newsmap.jp/ http://newsmap.jp/