Context: Concept map, an alternative concept developed in the Pinpoint project but never detailed.

Description: A suitably aggregated concept map based on mined organizational data is presented (1). On mouseover (2), a concept reveals people in the organization strongly connected to that concept, using a Sens-A-Patch style presentation. Selecting one of the names (3) highlights all concepts connected with that name, to facilitate further data exploration in a similar way (4).

Interesting: The interplay of concepts and people might provide a nice rapid flow. It might also come across as confusing and jerky.

Inspired by: Mainstream work on semantic aggregation in data mining.

Date: March 2008.

Jonas Löwgren homepage - interaction design sketchbook

Visualizing people in a large organization

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1. Concept map
2. 1d graph, 2 gauges (1+2)
3. 2d graph, 1 gauge (2+1)
4. Social network