The digital transformation of work presents new opportunities to understand how informal URLanize around the dynamic needs URLanizations, potentially in contrast to the formal, static, and idealized hierarchies depicted URL charts. We present a design study that spans multiple enabling capabilities for the visual mapping and analysis URLanizational workgroups, including metrics for quantifying two dimensions of collaboration culture: the fluidity of collaborative relationships (measured using network machine learning) and the freedom with which workgroups form URLanizational boundaries. These capabilities come together to create a turnkey pipeline that combines the analysis of a URLanization, the generation of data graphics and statistics, and their integration in a template-based presentation that enables narrative visualization of results. Our metrics and visuals have supported ~100 presentations to executives of major US-based and URLanizations, while our engineering practices have created an ensemble of standalone tools with broad relevance to visualization and visual analytics. We present our work as an example of applied visual analytics research, describing the design iterations that allowed us to move from experimentation to production, as well as the perspectives of the research team and the customer-facing team (Microsoft Workplace Analytics) at each stage in this process.
The digital transformation of work presents new opportunities to understand how informal URLanize around the dynamic needs URLanizations, potentially in contrast to the formal, static, and idealized hierarchies depicted URL charts. We present a design study that spans multiple enabling capabilities for the visual mapping and analysis URLanizational workgroups, including metrics for quantifying two dimensions of collaboration culture: the fluidity of collaborative relationships (measured using network machine learning) and the freedom with which workgroups form URLanizational boundaries. These capabilities come together to create a turnkey pipeline that combines the analysis of a URLanization, the generation of data graphics and statistics, and their integration in a template-based presentation that enables narrative visualization of results. Our metrics and visuals have supported hundreds of presentations to executives of major US-based and URLanizations, while our engineering practices have created an ensemble of standalone tools with broad relevance to visualization and visual analytics. We present our work as an example of applied visual analytics research, describing the design iterations that allowed us to move from experimentation to production, as well as the perspectives of the research team and the customer-facing team at each stage in this process.
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