A tree map showing the discography and commercial success of the late, great David Bowie. Figure 1: *** Sadly, coding in GoogleVis changed and the tree map is no longer visible, I shall work on an update soon*** Click on each square to move in a level. Right-click to move back out. Used as an extra credit assignment to create a 'really cool' graphic, I put this together as nothing can make graphics cooler than David Bowie. The treemap requires nesting observations so that the appropriate variables relate to a root. As can be seen in the table below, the title variable lists the albums, but also the years, eras and 'bowie' parent node. Each album then relates to a year in the 'parent' variable column, each year to an era in the 'parent' column and each era to the parent node of 'bowie'. The treemap command then follows: First naming the id variable of 'title', then the parent variable. Next, I input the size variable w...
Doing fun things with data and visualization.