Can you really TreeMap? Not just make a square pie chart.

[fbcideas_migusr]

One thing is certain; the effectiveness of any BI solution is really dependent on the capability and effectiveness of the data visualization! Recently I attended a number of Power BI sessions at TechReady and visited every presenter after the session to show and ask them if we at Microsoft could do real tree maps like the ones shown below? Sadly it’s not something we can do but really need to and should. I and some of my colleagues have using the third party app have deployed such a solution with project server data and the backend. Its popularity and impact is without question. It has led to new contracts in the millions and the demand does not appear to be going away. My challenge to the community is can you all build such robustness into Power BI? http://www.hivegroup.com/

[denglishbi1]

For the treemaps I would like to see the size of the box represent one measure and then the color another. This was like the Performance Map / Heatmaps they were called in ProClarity. Very cool feature and quick visual way to do analysis. It would be nice to support drilldown on the treemaps as well (need to perform analysis!). Similar to probably the one by Microsoft research for Office Apps as far as functionality - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/msrdatavis/treemap.aspx There used to be a nice example in the Silverlight toolkit for hockey treemap visualization demo, but that is gone now.

[mstefancik]

I vote for it as I consider treemap to be the most powerful chart for high density data. It really needs to do things like Datawatch treemap can do to enable analysis. So grouping and clustering items, coloring based on value, to be able create breakdowns and enable drilldown and rollup.