Interactive organization visualization tools for use in analyzing multivariate human-resource data of organizations

A non-transitory computer-readable hardware storage medium containing machine-executable instructions for performing a method of rendering, on an electronic display, a visual abstraction diagram of an entire organizational chart having a first number of nodes, wherein the entire organizational chart represents an organization containing the first number of members, wherein the first number of members corresponds respectively to the first number of nodes on the entire organizational chart that contains a plurality of hierarchical levels, the method comprising:

• receiving organization data representing the entire organizational chart containing the first number of nodes;
• storing the organization data in memory;
• retrieving a node-abstraction algorithm from the memory, wherein the node-extraction algorithm is configured to:
• consolidate sibling nodes of the first number of nodes on various ones of the plurality of hierarchical levels to generate a plurality of consolidated nodes, wherein the total number of the plurality of consolidated nodes and all unconsolidated nodes, if any, is less than the first number of nodes;
• and
• assign a weight to each parent node in the total number of the plurality of consolidated nodes and all unconsolidated nodes such that the weight on the parent node is equal to the sum of the weights of all child nodes of the parent node;
• retrieving the organization data from the memory;
• executing, using the organization data, the node-abstraction algorithm to create abstraction data representing an abstracted organizational chart containing the total number of the plurality of consolidated nodes and all unconsolidated nodes in a hierarchy, the abstraction data including the weight of each of the total number of the plurality of consolidated nodes and all unconsolidated nodes;
• storing the abstraction data in the memory so that the weights are associated with correspond respective ones of the total number of the plurality of consolidated nodes and all unconsolidated nodes;
• retrieving a visual rendering algorithm from the memory, wherein the visual rendering algorithm is configured to render sizes of the total number of the plurality of consolidated nodes and all unconsolidated nodes of the visual abstraction diagram as a function of the weights;
• retrieving the abstraction data from the memory;
• and
• executing, using the abstraction data, the visual rendering algorithm to render the visual abstraction diagram in entirety within a graphical user interface (GUI) on the electronic display;
• wherein:
• said executing a visual rendering algorithm includes visually merging ones of the consolidated nodes with one another;
• and
• wherein the organization has a second number of lateral segments and said visually merging ones of the consolidated nodes with one another includes visually merging together all of the consolidated nodes within each of the plurality of lateral segments so as to create the second number of visually merged regions corresponding respectively to the second number of the lateral segments.