Viz: Distribution Map

The Distribution Map is a generic technique for showing how properties distribute over a reference partition.

The visual notation consists of elements represented by small squares organized in partitions that are represented as rectangles. The elements are colored based on their distinct property.

For example, in the figure to the right, we have a Distribution Map showing five packages and four properties: Red, Blue Green and Yellow.

Publications

  1. Stéphane Ducasse, Tudor Gîrba, and Adrian Kuhn. Distribution Map. In Proceedings of 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM '06), p. 203—212, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA, 2006. DOI PDF 
  2. Adrian Kuhn, Stéphane Ducasse, and Tudor Gîrba. Semantic Clustering: Identifying Topics in Source Code. In Information and Software Technology 49(3) p. 230—243, March 2007. DOI PDF