SpaceViz: Visualization Tool for the Computer Storage Big-Data

This paper presents SpaceViz, an information visualization tool designed for depicting hierarchies, such as directory structures. SpaceViz has scanned, map and manage PC, network and cloud storage of multimedia data. Classical, space-filling squarified techniques are used as methodology, but differ from Tree-map single view in that it employs multiple views in two-dimensional space, which is used to more clearly the structural relationships of data from colour code and pattern based hierarchy. The paper includes an empirical study comparing SpaceViz and Tree-map. The study shows the participants perform significantly better to interact with multiple file formats using SpaceViz.