The OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart) project looks at the evolution of a company's structure over time. A snapshot of the Autodesk organizational hierarchy was taken each day between May 2007 and June 2011, a span of 1498 days.

Each day the entire hierarchy of the company is constructed as a tree with each employee represented by a circle, and a line connecting each employee with his or her manager. Larger circles represent managers with more employees working under them. The tree is then laid out using a force-directed layout algorithm.

From day to day, there are three types of changes that are possible:

Employees join the company

the company Employees leave the company

the company Employees change managers

Instead of recomputing the full layout each day, we animate the transitions from one day to the next. In this version of the video, each second corresponds to approximately one week of activity.

If you can, try watching the video fullscreen, at 1080p resolution.

Still Frames

If you are unable to watch the video, here are some static images from the animation:

Feedback

Please send any questions or feedback to my email address Justin.Matejka@Autodesk.com or contact me through Twitter @JustinMatejka.

We would love to visualize other companies with OrgOrgChart. If you are interested in visualizing your company's data, please get in touch.