We have compared three common visualisations for hierarchical quantitative data, treemaps, icicle plots and sunburst charts as well as a semicircular variant of sunburst charts we call the sundown chart. In a pilot study, we found that the sunburst chart was least preferred. In a controlled study with 12 participants, we compared treemaps, icicle plots and sundown charts. Treemap was the least preferred and had a slower performance on a basic navigation task and slower performance and accuracy in hierarchy understanding tasks. The icicle plot and sundown chart had similar performance with slight user preference for the icicle plot.

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分层定量数据的交互式可视化：评估

我们比较了分层定量数据、树状图、冰柱图和旭日图以及我们称为日落图的旭日图的半圆形变体的三种常见可视化。在一项试点研究中，我们发现旭日图是最不受欢迎的。在一项有 12 名参与者的对照研究中，我们比较了树状图、冰柱图和日落图。Treemap 是最不受欢迎的，在基本导航任务上的性能较慢，在层次结构理解任务中的性能和准确性较慢。冰柱图和日落图具有相似的性能，但用户对冰柱图略有偏好。