Treemap

Compare parts of a whole with rectangles sized by value, perfect for portfolios, budgets and market share.

8 treemap examples

Revenue by category

Relative size of every product category.

Treemaps handle a wide spread better than pies: the smallest category is a twentieth of the largest and still gets a readable tile.

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Cloud costs

Which services eat the infrastructure bill.

Compute is half the bill and the other half is six line items. A treemap is what a FinOps review actually looks like.

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Portfolio weights

Position sizes across a portfolio.

Every holding as an area you can compare at a glance. Concentration jumps out long before a table of percentages would.

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Disk usage

Folder sizes at a glance.

The interface every disk-cleanup tool copied, for good reason: area maps to bytes, so the thing to delete is the biggest rectangle.

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Population by region

Relative population per world region.

Asia against Oceania is a hundred-to-one ratio. A treemap survives that spread; a pie chart collapses into an unreadable sliver.

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Support load by category

Where support hours are actually spent.

Same data as a support bar chart, but sized by area — useful when it sits on a dashboard next to other tiles rather than on its own axis.

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Budget by team

Who controls what share of the budget.

Planning meetings go faster when everyone can see the rectangles. Engineering at forty percent is a decision, not an accident.

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Content by topic cluster

Article count per topic cluster.

An SEO content map: the size of each cluster next to the others, so a thin cluster with high intent is visibly the next thing to write.

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