HN TreeMap
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On a side note, the animations between views are nice.
This view, however, is about as useful as using a pie chart--perhaps the intent was to correlate the points with share of total attention?
On the other hand, I subscribe to the "piecharts are almost always evil and useless" school, and should in almost all cases be replaced with stacked bar charts (sideways preferably)--which the strip view is rather similar to.
* 22% interest in tech papers
* 21% in Apple advantage
* 16% interest in ...
As a side note, I usually only care for what the top 5 or so things are, and the percentages aren't that important.
You could, however, just have a list of pts and the titles... but then you get the front page of HN :)
I'm using the Radial Graph from TheJit in my "facebook for dead people" prototype http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?mode=RGraph&...