14 - 19 OCTOBER, 2012. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA

Show Me the Cracks in Our Teams: Visual Representations of Demographic Diversity Faultlines

Contributors: 
Tuan Pham, Ronald Metoyer, Katerina Bezrukova, Chester Spell
Description
We address the problem of visualizing demographic faultlines, a fundamental construct developed to understand dynamics among members in diverse workgroups. We propose a visual representation for this purpose that is based on multiple linked, stacked histograms in a parallel axis layout. In collaboration with management researchers, we evaluate our technique qualitatively using both synthetic data and real-world data of an empirical faultlines study.