Using treemaps to understand hierarchical data

How to make sense of a complex visualization technique.

Kai Wong
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readApr 16, 2021

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I didn’t understand the point of treemaps until I worked with a large structured dataset.

As part of an extensive user research effort, we collected open-ended survey data from 130 participants. After standardizing the data and doing thematic analysis, the next topic…

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