Cytoscape Dagre Org Chart
A top-down organisation chart laid out with the Dagre extension — a directed-acyclic-graph layout engine that produces the rectangular, evenly-ranked picture you expect from an org chart, hierarchy diagram, or call tree. Dagre handles every parent-child relationship including mer
Template details
- chart
- tree
- orgchart
- dagre
- cytoscape
When to use this template
This visualization clearly reveals the structure of hierarchical relationships, making it easy to trace reporting lines and identify spans of control within an organization or system. An analyst would reach for it to understand who reports to whom, visualize chains of command, or map out complex dependencies, particularly when dealing with 'dotted-line' or matrix reporting structures where a single entity might report to multiple superiors.
- Data representing directed parent-child relationships
- Hierarchical data where nodes have distinct attributes (e.g., name, title)
- Datasets requiring clear visualization of reporting lines and ranks
- Structures where a child node may have multiple parent nodes
- Categorical data for grouping or coloring nodes (e.g., department)
- Relatively small to medium graphs (hundreds, not thousands of nodes)