InfoVis and Treepie software blog

2011-03-16T20:13:00.014+01:00

treepie release 1.4 (hard disk usage tool)

(windows free disk usage analyzer)

This a free software and open source.

A nice book about the visualization of complex networks :Visual Complexity (one of my projects is at page 113)

And a general article about sunburst diagram

2011-03-16T17:00:00.000+01:00

Finally a new version of TREEPIE (now work on windows 7) https://sourceforge.net/projects/treepie/files/treepie/TREEPIE_1.4.zip/download

Una nuova versione di TREEPIE! :D
https://sourceforge.net/projects/treepie/files/treepie/TREEPIE_1.4.zip/download

2011-02-28T23:49:00.001+01:00

TreePie on HAK5 jump to 5:44!

2010-10-04T17:06:00.000+02:00

BUG reported:

I've used TreePie on several machines and found one that does not work very well.

When I use it to visualize the C: drive on my new Windows 7 computer, x86-64 edition, (230 GB drive, with 150 GB free space), it creates a pretty confused result. Most of the folders display red, and the name of the folders when you hover over changes, but not in any correlation with the displayed pie chart. The sizes are also all over the map.

TreePie 1.2 has no problem with the C: drive. Also, TreePie 1.3 works fine on my old Windows XP machine, and on a smaller subset of the C: drive on the Win7/64 machine.

Look quite wrong. I hope to fix this soon

Global color usage with respect to time and location / 2009 / SML + Adobe Kuler Pulse

2009-07-18T00:12:00.001+02:00

Global color usage with respect to time and location / 2009 / SML + Adobe Kuler Pulse
Originally uploaded by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Sml !

2009-07-08T16:42:00.004+02:00

download daisydisk! finally a sunburst diagram on MAC.

look cool

2009-06-10T11:17:00.003+02:00

treepie-nostalgia 2004 by waybackmachine

2009-05-10T14:16:00.002+02:00

new release of treepie coming soon:


   1 F5 to rescan directory
   2 compatible with vista (now junction folder are ignored)
   3 small color change

After the release treepie will be split in 2 branch of development "main" and "experimental" and 2 developers will start to work on experimental branch to check new idea. :D

Marco

2009-03-25T15:36:00.004+01:00

Sorry, Vista is currently not supported. Hope to fix this in some months.

UPDATE:

Danilo say:

By downloading the source files and compiling with Visual Studio 2008, I could make it work on Vista. If you want, I can provide you the exe file...

2008-06-05T23:59:00.001+02:00

AMMINISTRATORI IN CONDOMINIO *
di Carlo Drago , Andrea Polo e Paolo Santella 06.12.2007
Nel periodo 1998-2006 la grande maggioranza delle società quotate italiane è stata collegata in un'unica rete attraverso una piccola minoranza di amministratori. Un gruppo, questo, che mostra grande stabilità nel tempo e con componenti che spesso appartengono alle stesse famiglie. Assai alto il grado di connettività per le blue chips e in particolare per quasi tutte le principali società bancarie e finanziarie. Negli ultimi anni tende a ridursi il numero dei collegamenti, ma non delle società coinvolte, con una maggiore centralità di Mediobanca. E la concorrenza?

Sembra scritto pensando a http://weshowthemoney.com/italia

2008-05-11T22:05:00.001+02:00

A review of TREEPIE:

[..]But now there's a new contender called TreePie [4]. Basically, TreePie represents disk usage like a pizza with the size of each slice representing the space taken by each top level folder. Clicking a folder "slice" will then display a similar "pizza" breakdown of the sub-folders and files in that folder. It sounds complicated when I describe it but it's simple and intuitive in use.

It's also highly effective. Add to that the fact that it's also portable, has an alternative Windows explorer view and is free open source software and you have an easy "top product in class" recommendation.
My only complaint is its rather slow scan time. Still, this is not the kind of program you will be using everyday so a short delay is quite tolerable

http://46best.com/dr/best-free-disk-space-analyzer.htm

treepie1.2

2008-05-09T09:30:00.001+02:00

treepie1.2
Originally uploaded by borgmarc

2008-03-28T09:06:00.001+01:00

Volete farmi un regalo? per appena 5000$ questa stampante 3d farebbe al caso mio

2008-02-27T12:42:00.004+01:00

8aweek.com is a fantastic tool to understand the use ( ehm the waste ) of your time online.

They have also a blog: http://8aweek.com/blog/ well written and funny too.

UPDATE 23/03/20: DEAD! :(

2007-12-27T14:13:00.000+01:00

UnfluenceBlog: "Sister project
November 26th, 2007
Great minds think alike. Marco Borgna just contacted us to tell us about a nice Java/prefuse application he built to show networks of contributions to US governors races using NIMSP data. Check it out at http://weshowthemoney.com/
A nice feature is that it is shows data combined for multiple states, so you can get a picture of the activity of unions and PACs at the national level.
Are there any similar projects showing EU data?"

Unfluence is a great project of visualization !

2007-10-02T09:38:00.000+02:00

UPDATE 9.28 25/11/2007: first version application online. send comments ( and report bug bug@weshowthemoney.com )! :D

My friend Daniele Galiffa from Mentegrafica.it has pointed me to the data coming from Follow The Money a nonpartisan organization dedicated to documentation and research on campaign finance at the state level.

I have used for now only data about Governors elected in 2006 and used they top 100 donors.

Images here and in my photo blog are the results of my first attempt to show the data using the prefuse visualization library

I will release the applet to produce the images when ready :D .

Italian follows :)

Qui potete vedere cosa si può fare in America con i soldi.

Qui potete vedere che cosa succede tra i soldi e la politica in America.

Qui potete vedere l'America.

Abbiamo ricavato i nostri dati da Follow The Money e li abbiamo resi visibili.

Si vede l'ambiguità di chi finanzia indistintamente Repubblicani e Democratici.
Altre foto qui

2007-04-19T10:20:00.001+02:00

Just a preview of my software to display connection between italian quoted society,

Solo una preview del mio software per la visualizazzione delle societa' italiane quotate

BETTER BIG

Caltagirone
Originally uploaded by borgmarc.

2006-10-26T17:54:00.000+02:00

A paper on "sunburst visualization" from caltech

An evaluation of space-filling information visualizations
for depicting hierarchical structures JOHN STASKO

and also:

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~sahraouh/qaoose2005/paper3.pdf

2006-10-05T09:38:00.000+02:00

A commercial software very similar to treepie!

Look very nice.. (I was unable to try it, but still look very veruy good) BUY TDP (49 $ )

COOL

2006-09-08T11:42:00.000+02:00

An interesting overview on various disk size Disk Usage Analysis Softwares. Worth a visit.

2006-08-25T10:36:00.000+02:00

Some tip for mac-os users:

Confessions of an Undercover Geek » Where did all my hard drive space go?:

"Where did all my hard drive space go?

Lately it seems like my hard drive space had been getting less and less.

On Friday, I was watching the latest episode of DL.tv. They talked about different tools you could use to visualize where the space was being taken up on your hard drive. The mac tool they talked about was Disk Inventory X. It is awesome.

It shows a rectangle and splits the rectangle up with different colors and boxes to show the different files that are taking up space on your hard drive. The tool makes it easy to go and clean out old files that are taking up space. I was able to successfully clean out a bunch of space on my hard drive.

This tool just works for Mac OS X. If you are a Windows users, there is SequoiaView and TreePie."

maptreepie

2006-08-25T10:18:00.000+02:00

maptreepie
Originally uploaded by borgmarc.

The map of the last downloads.

2006-08-17T15:08:00.000+02:00

Nagios use a very nice treepie in the Status Map.

cool

"Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program."

2006-07-21T14:59:00.000+02:00

Treepie live!

TRY TREEPIE !

2006-07-20T15:25:00.000+02:00

comment on treepie:

I went looking for software to search for large files and found that most of the “good stuff” is commercial. However, a fella in Italy has written a clever open source program called Treepie. At first glance you will look at the output and think “What the hell does THAT mean?” but once you start running your mouse over the output you will see how he’s organized things and it makes a lot of sense.

It’s not the fastest or the slickest program in the world, but it’s free and it gets the job done. It helped me find a folder off my root directory where I had forgotten to delete a number of ummm *cough* DVD images *cough*. Data, of course.

from http://www.poweredbycoffee.net

and also some interesting comment in: http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3822519

mydisk as a graph

2006-07-13T17:57:00.001+02:00

mydisk
Originally uploaded by borgmarc.

mydisk

I have modified the websiteasgrhaps applet to show my disk... still not usefull as treepie.sf.net but.... i love it :D

see it bigger

HDTREEPIE public tag

2006-07-12T10:40:00.000+02:00

HDTREEPIE public tag
Originally uploaded by borgmarc.

Flickrmania:

download TreePie from treepie.sf.net,

use it to make a screenshot of your hard disk as drawn by TreePie,

put it on flickr and tag it HDtreepie ...

or if you prefere directly treepie (but i'ts also a bird :D ).

DONE!

2006-06-11T16:28:00.000+02:00

visualcomplexity.com | Musicovery: "Musicovery, by Frederic Vavrille, is an interactive webRadio, or if you want, an hybrid of two of the most compelling music services on the Internet, MusicPlasma and Pandora. Frederic Vavrille, creator of the discovery engine MusicPlasma, has just materialized my wish. Being an enthusiast of both services, I had acknowledged that Pandora was missing a visual component in order to map all the relationships and influences between the artists, while on the other hand, MusicPlasma was lacking a key feature of a music engine, sound."

2006-06-11T11:43:00.000+02:00

Douglas Adams - Wikiquote:
The Universe

* In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move

2006-06-07T19:39:00.000+02:00

I dont like it to mutch but a lot of people love it ... give it a try

DiskView - Disk Size Manager and Cleaner: "
'Innovative, Intuitive, Integrated!'

DiskView is an innovative disk space manager that shows how your disk space is being utilized, and gives a visual report of your hard disk's health - all within Windows Explorer!
"

DOM HTML as a graph

2006-06-05T15:11:00.000+02:00

Mrpbody33.com as a graph
Originally uploaded by mrpbody33.

DOM parsing + processing and a nice IDEA! http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

image on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/websitesasgraphs/

2006-05-17T08:50:00.000+02:00

FROM MONKEY BASNew AJAX search engine called SNAP. It's look cool and has some interesting function : http://www.snap.com/

2006-05-13T22:45:00.000+02:00

The old blog layout has been lost in a "save template" failed. Very strange. For now I'm using this terrible layout and I hope to change it with a better one soon.

ALSO: I have just discovered the new Google tool to create web page: http://pages.google.com/

I have created a darft page just to test it in 30 seconds: http://treepie.googlepages.com/home

2006-05-09T10:18:00.000+02:00

I love FILEMON! It's so usefull and easy to use, try it !

(and also the others freeware utilities from SysInternals).
http://www.sysinternals.com/

2006-05-02T15:45:00.000+02:00

I'm working on some new idea on how to make a smarter local homepage.

Instead of using as homepage google.com or yahoo.com why don't using a configurable local page with some IFRAME inside pointing to google and yahoo but also showing my link.

Persistence is obiousvly the problem, but it can be fixed by using a site as a configurator and at the asking the user to download the modified page.

nerd tshirt not for disk usage

2006-04-12T10:24:00.000+02:00

nerd big
Originally uploaded by borgmarc.

Not so connnected to my disk usage tool but cool:
3d studio max nerd glasses

buy as a tshirt:
http://www.cafepress.com/tnerd

2006-04-04T08:36:00.000+02:00

Yes! Treepie is also on DIGG! Just... click on digg! :D

Ada

2005-12-19T14:13:00.000+01:00

Ada
Originally uploaded by borgmarc.

my daughter... she is nice! :D

2005-11-30T11:28:00.001+01:00

2005-11-25T10:00:00.000+01:00

An interesting software to lock folder: http://www.winability.com/folderguard/

If you don't have a NTFS disk ... can be useful

2005-11-15T17:34:00.000+01:00

Treepie applied to the whole Google directory! WOW!
http://www.geocities.com/borgnamarco/Top.html

2005-11-03T13:57:00.000+01:00

Visual disk usage [Duv] : http://bitwagon.com/duv/duv.html
Funny: at least has a colorfull display.

For linux

2005-11-03T13:49:00.000+01:00

A quite cool and colorfull disk usage tool :

http://www.coolutils.com/SpaceSearcher

cool icon at least :D

2005-10-26T09:50:00.000+02:00

Araxis Merge is the visual file comparison/merging and folder synchronization application from Araxis.

The user interface is localized in English, German, French, International Spanish and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified).

I LOVE IT! It saved me a lot of times. Simple, cool and clean. A must have for every professional programmer.

2005-10-12T09:07:00.000+02:00

A site with a big collection of interessting utility (disk usage tools too)

WEBPEDIA

2005-10-11T10:04:00.000+02:00

easycleaner a lot of functions and available in many languages.
Give it a try.

2005-10-06T18:55:00.000+02:00

Another disk usage tool -> windirstat
(i still prefere my way to display disk folder sizes, but windirstat is more productive)

2005-10-04T22:44:00.000+02:00

Something like treepie forMac :
GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.

2005-10-03T16:52:00.000+02:00

If anyone known some other software for Disk Usage Analysis or more generally for Disk Management please give me a feedback to borgna.marco a t gmail.com or post a comment here.

And also somebody has see this type of multilevel pie used in any others field? It's really used only to show folders size ?

2005-10-01T23:09:00.001+02:00

Do you need something similar to TreePie for Linux ? Bored of DU ?

try Filelight

it' s the coolest approach to disk usage display: TRY it!

You can also try KDIRSTAT wich is more serious and with a lot of functions, but less informative. It use treemap display: lot of confunsing squre one inside other to display disk analysis.

or

BaobapOpen Sourcehttp://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/

Filelight Filelight is an open software that shows your filesystem as a set of concentric pie (sunburst diagram)Open Sourcehttp://www.methylblue.com/filelight/

GD MapOpen Sourcehttp://gdmap.sourceforge.net/

KDE FSViewOpen Sourcehttp://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/kdeaddons/konq-plugins/fsview/index.html

KDirStatOpen Sourcehttp://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/

xdiskusageOpen Sourcehttp://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/

check also http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Disk_Management/Usage_Analysis/

For windows a lot of disk usage tools are available (most as shareware):
Space Searcher
FolderSizes - Disk Space Management Software

2005-09-17T08:40:00.000+02:00

WOW! Nintendo ha finalmente svelato quale sarà il controller della nuova console "Revolution" [+] . Sembra uno stupido telecomando ma in realtà è in grado di "sentire" la distanza e la posizione dalla console. Potete già immaginare quanti nuovi tipi di gioco si possono fare!

Una nuovo passo nel tentativo della Nintendo di coinvolgere nuove fasce di età e di uscire dalla nicchia dei "core gamer"... insomma far giocare anche la fidanzata, il nonno e la mamma del giocatore tipico.

Shigeru Miyamoto a 20 anni esatti dalla creazione di SUPER MARIO BROS è l'attuale artefice dei questa svolta... che deciderà il futuro della Nintendo.

Non sono riuscito a trovare nulla riguardo al supporto di Java sul Nintendo Revolution : visto il target di utenza particolare credo che la possibilità di sviluppare applicazioni in Java da scaricare da Internet sarebbe molto utile.

2005-09-13T09:26:00.000+02:00

Come si accede a un sito con Java attraverso un proxy?

Lo avete cercato nella documentazione ? NON c'é! (o almeno io proprio non l'ho trovato!)

Ma nei TIP di javaworld ho trovato :


System.getProperties().put( "proxySet", "true" );
System.getProperties().put( "proxyHost", "myProxyMachineName" );
System.getProperties().put( "proxyPort", "85" );

URL aurl = new URL("http://2006torino.blogspot.com");

BufferedReader d= new BufferedReader(
 new InputStreamReader(
  aurl.openStream()));

String line = d.readLine();         
while(line!=null){
 System.out.println(line);
 line = d.readLine();
}

e FUNZIONA!

2005-08-08T10:35:00.000+02:00

Windows VISTA e OPENGL La Microsoft fa il solito giochetto del supporto "parziale" di Opengl:

Opengl su Windows Vista sarà gestito da un strato su DirectX ma se un applicazione Opengl sarà attivata il "desktop compositor" sarà disattivato degradando le prestazioni.

Questo significa che:

OpenGL performance saranno ridotte in maniera significativa (50% ?)
OpenGL on Windows sarà fissato definitivamente alla versione 1.4 di OpenGL
non sarà possibile aggiungere estensioni ARB post 1.4

post su OPENGL.ORG che spiega il problema (in inglese)

Gli sviluppatori dovranno impazzire per far funzionare le cose su più macchine.

Che noia!

Chissà se TREEPIE funzionerà ancora!

2005-07-26T09:58:00.000+02:00

SISTEMI PREVALENT

Un articolo interessante:

Prevalence: Transparent, Fault-Tolerant Object Persistence by Jim Paterson

ITA: sui sistemi di persistenza "prevalent" che permettono di gestire il "salvataggio" degli oggetti mantenendone l'integrità transazionale MA SENZA USARE UN DATABASE!

Il framework più usato, per java, è Prevayler.
(tra l'altro come tradurreste prevalent? predominante? prevalente? mah!)

Adesso lo provo e vi aggiorno in un post al più presto.

ENG: Want to persist your objects, with transactional integrity? You probably assume you're going to be using a database, but not so fast--for lighter uses, particularly for prototyping and testing, the idea of "prevalence" may make more sense. Jim Paterson introduces it by way of Prevayler, a popular prevalence framework.

2005-07-07T10:36:00.000+02:00

I Generics sono l'equivalente dei template del C++ per JAVA. La prima volta che li ho visti ero un po' dubbioso... perchè aggiungere a Java le difficoltà del C++ ?

Perchè i Generics sono potenti e anche semplici!
Come farne a meno? :P

In sostanza si tratta di creare funzioni e classi generiche che utilizzano delle variabili o delle classi i cui TIPI che verrano definiti al primo uso (a compile time) .
In c++ i template sono POTENTI ma posso confondere e spaventare l'utente non smaliziato. In Java sono più semplici e appaiono piuttosto utilizzabili.

un po' di risorse....

Generics in J2SE 5.0 by Budi Kurniawan -- Generics are one of the most prominent language features in J2SE 5.0, but are you using them yet? Properly used, they allow greater flexibility, compile-time type safety, and fewer annoying and potentially unsafe casts. In this article, Budi Kurniawan shows how they work. (OnJava, molto ben fatto)

TUTORIAL PDF (della SUN, in inglese)

2005-07-05T17:49:00.000+02:00

Ho ridisegnato il sito di TreePie.sf.net adesso è quasi carino!

TreePie è un software che permette di capire cosa occupa il tuo disco con un interfaccia visuale molto semplice.

SCREENSHOT !

Il numero di applicazioni per la visualizzazione dello spazio occupato sul disco è piuttosto ampio, ecco un l'elenco secondo DMOZ.org:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Disk_Management/Usage_Analysis/

Sto meditando si fare un test di tutte le applicazioni con tanto di voto (TREEPIE ha già il massimo :P)

TreePie ha ricevuto il riconoscimento di Softpedia in quanto 100% FREE!
http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/TreePie-Clean-23637.html