I’ve just given my talk on Visualizing Software Quality at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. The following links are resources from my talk. If necessary, I’ll add more to them later. I’m not posting my slides because, well, most of it’s already on my blog. Don’t feel you’ve lost much from not seeing them because I didn’t use any bullet points at all. I’m happy to address any questions or issues in the comments.
Update: Today I presented at Adobe and showed off the really awesome Newsmap This treemap has a very interesting “about” page that I hope you will also peruse. Playing with the filters on the newsmap is also a fascinating exploration of what types of news stories are popular in the media of different countries.
Books
Edward Tufte – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Stephen B. Johnson – The Ghost Map
Treemap Software
The following are available for free:
JTreeMap @benoitx
Sonar
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
Treemap 4.1.2 – not for commercial users
The following are commercial:
Panopticon (Don’t know the price for this one.)
The Hive Group (They called me and said, “it’s really cheap at $20,000.” I said, “ha, ha.”)
Horizon Graphs
Panopticon invented this visualization, so I’d ask them about it.
Here is Stephen Few’s blogpost on the subject.
Another commercial TreeMap software, but reasonably priced ($ 195), is the one from Macrofocus.
PNSQC does not have the “Visualizing Software Quality” slides of your talk. I would love to see them.
pls get in touch with me.
Cheers,
Mark
Yes, I am late with this. Conduct cut!
Actually, I’m adding some links to them right now, and will send them in when I’m finished.
Also, I took a look at the Macrofocus treemap software. Not bad. It very closely replicates the functionality of UM software. However, in order for this to be useful, it would probably need to be on a server. That costs around $1,200, but still far cheaper than some other options.