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Learn D3.js
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Learn D3.js

by Helder Da Rocha
May 2019
Beginner to intermediate
650 pages
14h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Enclosure diagrams

Enclosure diagrams reveal the topology of a hierarchy through containment. Circle packing places leaf nodes in circles, which represent subtrees. Their cumulative size determines the size of the enclosing circle, but the use of space in this type of chart is not very efficient. Treemaps use rectangles instead of circles and are more space-efficient. They also allow areas to be compared with more precision, but circle packing is usually better at emphasizing topology.

The following diagrams show the same data rendered with circle packing and treemap layouts. The full code and the data files used to generate these charts are available from the GitHub repository for this chapter:

Country and continent populations (2016) visualized ...
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