{"id":301684,"date":"2010-02-09T22:45:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/barcelona_database_ii_zoomable_treemap.html"},"modified":"2010-02-09T22:45:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T03:45:33","slug":"barcelona-database-ii-zoomable-treemap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/301684","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Database II: Zoomable Treemap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"biodiversity_treemap.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/biodiversity_treemap.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe attentive infosthetics might well remember the post at the beginning of this month about the online <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/map_of_biodiversity_data.html\">interactive map of biodiversity data<\/a> from the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona. It seems its designers, the data visualization firm <a href=\"http:\/\/bestiario.org\/\">Bestiario<\/a>, had originally planned even more, as today they launched a smoothly zoomable treemap, titled  <a href=\"http:\/\/arbre.bioexplora.cat\/\">Biodiversity Tree<\/a> [bioexplora.cat], showing the same dataset. Navigation occurs through clicking unto, or outside of, the individual rectangles, or using the schematic diagram below.<\/p>\n<p>Zoomable treemaps are not a particularly new idea, as one can observe the <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/amazon_com_visualization_map.html\">amazon.com Treemap<\/a> or the (now defunct) <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/browsegoods_visual_shopping.html\">Browse Goods<\/a> interface, but no implementation has accomplished similarly smooth zooming animations. <\/p>\n<p>Could it these biodiversity data interfaces are still missing some intuitive way for lay people to even get interested in this topic?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KHi28EV9zXO0A_yKGX0alTFAEKQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KHi28EV9zXO0A_yKGX0alTFAEKQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KHi28EV9zXO0A_yKGX0alTFAEKQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KHi28EV9zXO0A_yKGX0alTFAEKQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:nQ_hWtDbxek\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=nQ_hWtDbxek\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=QZ5C--k56i4:wMhQHzkVTMY:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/infosthetics\/~4\/QZ5C--k56i4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attentive infosthetics might well remember the post at the beginning of this month about the online interactive map of biodiversity data from the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona. 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