What is a Sociomap?

Sociomaps are a new way of visualizing complex relationships by presenting team information in an intuitive and visually engaging format.
Basic principles of Sociomap reading

• Each team member is represented by a point on the Sociomap.
• The distance between the points represents the relative social distances between each of the team members for a selected characteristic; e.g. communication.
• The closer two people are on the Sociomap, the closer they are in relation to a measured characteristic such as frequency of communication.
• The height of the points on the Sociomap is used to display another characteristic such as the effectiveness of communication.
• A colour scale is used to make analysis simple; e.g. blue is low, red is high.

A dynamic example Sociomap can be viewed here