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> Sadly, I mostly dislike tree maps. At large, I never actually see the tree structure that they are supposedly helping me see. I think the tree map examples i
by mo_42 3y ago
> Sadly, I mostly dislike tree maps. At large, I never actually see the tree structure that they are supposedly helping me see.
I think the tree map examples in the article are missing the padding that you would add to every layer. Apparently, I didn't find any good examples with a quick search. I think this is a crucial feature of tree maps.
- alexvoda 3y agoWhy would you ever want the padding? For me the padding makes the treemap useless.
- mo_42 3y agoPadding in tree maps lets you extract the exact tree structure from the visualization as every layer is shown in a visible box. So it makes the visualization more useful. I found an example of such a tree map here [1]. [1] https://towardsdatascience.com/make-a-treemap-in-python-426cee6ee9b8 https://towardsdatascience.com/make-a-treemap-in-python-426c...