Critique

strength: popout for extreme attributes
 
[Johnson and Shneiderman. Treemaps: A Space-Filling Approach to the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures. Proc. IEEE Visualization 1991.]
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weaknesses: difficulties seeing structure
 
[van Wijk and van de Wetering. Cushion Treemaps. Proc. InfoVis 1999]

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