Trammel Map: Providing a Clear View of the Enterprise Social Network

In this paper, we designed a Trammel Map to display the organization and network structure embedded in the enterprise social network. The basic idea of this design is to display the organization structure as a Treemap and graph links as curved links overlaid on the Treemap. Nodes from different organization units are put into separated squares. The proposed method also places nodes by their quantitative attributes. The most influencing person and organization unit are posited on the most noticeable place. This method enables a quick exploring and better understanding of the enterprise social network. The user can understand the collaboration and communication among diferent organization units in a straight way.