# Galaxies of the Guardian: the formation of an irregular org chart

DevFeed: [Galaxies of the Guardian: the formation of an irregular org chart](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/galaxies-of-the-guardian-the-formation-of-an-irregular-org-chart-19960.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/feb/03/galaxies-of-the-guardian-the-formation-of-an-irregular-org-chart>)

Author: Frederick O'Brien

Published: 2023-02-03T13:05:39Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Guardian](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guardian.md>)

Topics: [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>)

Tags: [d3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/d3.md>), [graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphs.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [prototype](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prototype.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>), [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/structure.md>)

## AI overview

The Guardian's Product & Engineering department built Galaxies, a force-directed visualization of interconnected people, teams, and streams intended to present organizational structure in a beautiful, intuitive, non-hierarchical form. The project grew from learning data visualization with D3 and experimenting with d3-force.

## Source excerpt

'Who does what and where?' is an age-old question. We in Product & Engineering have tried to answer it with Galaxies, a data visualisation of interconnected people, teams, and streams We all feel a little lost at times. Who am I? What is my purpose? Who's the best person to speak to about setting up my AWS credentials? Anyone who says they aren't occasionally haunted by these questions is lying to you. A common way to try to answer these kinds of questions is through organisational charts. Org charts aren't the first things that come to mind when thinking of something inspiring, which is a shame because the information they're trying to convey can be fascinating - it just needs to be presented in the right way. Continue reading...