Data viz isn’t just a modern-day craze. Designer Manuel Lima, author of The Book of Trees, discusses the origins of the tree diagram.

Tree diagrams strike a nice balance between being understandable and taking up a reasonable amount of space. The nodes represent links between constituents, so it's useful to label them.

A project has come up at work in which I need to take XML data, and transform it into another specific XML structure. Basically, the first step is to map elements from the original XML to the new ...

Here, the typographic tree is one branch of a tree diagram, reaching from medieval drawings to Shneiderman’s treemaps. Lima has skilfully organised his book to reveal these developments.

The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima, out this month from Princeton Architectural Press, covers the centuries of the tree diagram’s growth from religious and moral ...

Explore the benefits of using a worry tree diagram to sort your worries into specific buckets and create a plan for letting them go.

How do scientists diagram evolutionary relationships? Scientists represent evolutionary relationships with tree diagrams (also called cladograms) because new life forms appear the way new branches ...

Typical examples of trees that arise in project management are organizational charts or work breakdown structures. If the TREE option is specified, the NETDRAW procedure checks if the network has a ...

This diagram is an example of a simple phylogenetic tree. In most cases, researchers draw phylogenetic trees in such a way as to record only those events that are relevant to a set of living taxa.