• Selected Thinkmap Examples

This application is for navigating through employees from an engineering organization with about 2,500 employees. In this organization, employees have various skills and work on a number of programs. The visualization allows users to navigate through the organizational chart and to filter and highlight employees based on their experience, pay rate, other other properties.

Employees have Certain Characteristics

In this company, each employee has a number or characteristics:

1. Name
2. Gender
3. Age
4. Years of Service
5. Pay Rate
6. A Person to Whom the Person Reports (except, of course, for the head of the division)

Thinkmap is then used to visualize some of these characteristics. The shape and color of the icon represent the gender. The size represents the number of people reporting to that person. And the distance from the icon's shadow indicates the number of years of service with the organization.

This application makes good use of filters and sorting to analyze this information. If you adjust the pulldown menu on the right side, you change the way the data is sorted. If you adjust the sliders, you can see your orgchart filtered based on the information you have.

Things to Try

• Adjust the Sort slider in the upper right corner to change how the employees are arranged.
• Right (or Apple) click on any of the employees to see the tree expand.
• Adjust the filters on the upper right hand corner to see different combinations of Age, Years of service, and Pay.
• Click on the Show Skills button to see the Skills that any group of employees have. Then roll over an employee to highlight what skills that employee has. The thickness of the line indicates management assesment of that employee's skills.
• Search for "Ethel" to see how the different icons can be useful.