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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
by 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 agoI 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 agoWell, 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 :)