Visualizing the stock market

ABSTRACT

We describe a new 2-dimensional visualization algorithm capable of presenting detailed information on hundreds of items while emphasizing overall patterns in the data. This display method, which builds on Shneiderman's treemap technique, makes use of both hierarchy and similarity information. We have implemented this display in the SmartMoney Map of the Market, a web page that reports current data on over 500 publicly traded companies.

REFERENCES

• 1: Brian Johnson , Ben Shneiderman, Tree-Maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures, Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91, October 22-25, 1991, San Diego, California
• 2: Jungmeister, W. and Turo, D. Adapting Treemaps to Stock Portfolio Generalization,Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, Sept., 1992, CS-TR-2996.
• 3: Ben Shneiderman, Tree visualization with tree-maps: 2-d space-filling approach, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.11 n.1, p.92-99, Jan. 1992 [doi>10.1145/102377.115768]
• 4: David Turo , Brian Johnson, Improving the visualization of hierarchies with treemaps: design issues and experimentation, Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92, October 19-23, 1992, Boston, Massachusetts

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
interactive graphics, investing, treemap, visualization