 The Treemap and its cousins — Heatmap and Heat Matrix visualizations — are three of the most useful data visualization techniques available. They provide an efficient window into underlying real-time business data. You can spot anomalies, hidden patterns and outliers in seconds when looking at our Treemaps. Panopticon's Treemap data visualizations are particularly useful in a variety of financial services applications.
Check out this demo of a fully interactive Treemap showing a Dynamic Map of the US Stock Market. This Treemap visualization uses a streaming feed with up-to-the minute market data supplied by BATS Global Markets. It allows instant analysis of what is happening in the market based on current data. |
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A Treemap is a colorful mosaic of rectangular fields based on your data. The size of a field reflects its importance. The color conveys urgency; good news is shown in shades of blue and bad news is shown in shades of red. Most people can learn to understand the information presented in a Treemap within a few minutes – even if that Treemap is showing data representing an underlying data set of millions of records.
Fast Comprehension of complex data
Treemaps use our innate ability to comprehend size, color and groupings very quickly – much faster than we can read and interpret reports, tables or diagrams. They enable users to easily filter out less interesting data, focus on crucial outliers, and act quickly based on patterns and trends they are able to visualize in what otherwise would be unfathomable mounds of data.
Our Treemaps are not static pictures. They are an effective way to visualize the information contained in large databases and in real-time streaming feeds. The real value of the visualization is quickly apparent when you interact with the data. Users can zoom, filter and view details on demand, as well as link to and highlight other sources of information.
Find Outliers and correlations
in Seconds
Utilizing a Treemap, you will be able to point out important values in a matter of seconds – much faster than you can read any report. However, what most people don’t realize is that your brain processes the information before your mind becomes aware of it. For the brain, it is not a question of seconds, but milliseconds. Scientists call this pre-attentive processing. It is defined as involuntary processing of visual information without focused attention in a very short time - as fast as 200 milliseconds.
This automated and effortless perception of information is what visualization tools such as treemaps make use of. The visual display in a Treemap lets people utilize their innate ability to quickly interpret, understand and compare object sizes, colors, and groupings. A picture really does say more than a thousand words.
Availability
Treemap data visualizations are included in all of our
products:
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