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DOITrees Revisited: Scalable, Space-Constrained Visualization of Hierarchical Data

Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2004
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A Degree-Of-Interest Tree visualization of the Open Directory Project (http://dmoz.org). The tree contains over 600,000 nodes, laid out in a right-to-left orientation. Multiple foci have been selected and the various expanded branches are allocated as much space as possible given the display constraints.
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Abstract
This paper extends previous work on focus+context visualizations of tree-structured data, introducing an efficient, space-constrained, multi-focal tree layout algorithm ("TreeBlock") and techniques at both the system and interactive levels for dealing with scale. These contributions are realized in a new version of the Degree-Of-Interest Tree browser, supporting real-time interactive visualization and exploration of data sets containing on the order of a million nodes.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{2004-doitrees-revisited,
  title = {DOITrees Revisited: Scalable, Space-Constrained Visualization of Hierarchical Data},
  author = {Heer, Jeffrey AND Card, Stuart},
  booktitle = {Advanced Visual Interfaces},
  year = {2004},
  pages = {421--424},
  url = {https://idl.uw.edu/papers/doitrees-revisited},
  doi = {10.1145/989863.989941}
}