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A pie chart could serve a similar purpose, but can be much easier to interpret. I like this interactive pie chart for profiling Webpack bundle size. I've used i
by NTARelix 3y ago
A pie chart could serve a similar purpose, but can be much easier to interpret. I like this interactive pie chart for profiling Webpack bundle size. I've used it several times at work to help find and reduce bloat in our bundles.
https://alexkuz.github.io/webpack-chart/ https://alexkuz.github.io/webpack-chart/
- harry8 3y agoGiven how horrifically bad people are at interpreting pie charts, that does not bode well for treemaps. "[Pie] charts are bad and that the only thing worse than one pie chart is lots of them" -Edward Tufte https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/resources/data-visualisation-and-exploration/no_pie-charts https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/resources/data-visualisation-a... https://www.businessinsider.com/pie-charts-are-the-worst-2013-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/pie-charts-are-the-worst-201... https://www.data-to-viz.com/caveat/pie.html https://www.data-to-viz.com/caveat/pie.html etc etc
- funcDropShadow 3y agoYour example is usually referred to as a sunburn chat. Although it shares all drawbacks of pie charts. Some would say sunburn chart make it even harder to correctly understand the relative size of elements than pie charts.
- NTARelix 3y agoCorrection: The chart I'm talking about has multiple names, but is not a simple pie chart. Thanks to funcDropShadow for pointing this out. The names: sunburst chart, multilevel pie chart, and radial treemap. https://www.anychart.com/chartopedia/chart-type/sunburst-chart/ https://www.anychart.com/chartopedia/chart-type/sunburst-cha...