Post election, I wanted to make some sankey diagrams. My usual data visualisation tools are Excel or Libre Calc and I don’t think they include this charting option, but I want to do it. Here are my unfinished notes …
2024
So I decided to have another go. Microsoft and Libre Office still don’t do it, so I had a look at what was there, preferring Excel because I am better with it. I found this article from Chartguide which points at poweruser.com which is not free. For my source collections, see Where did the votes come from? on this wiki.
I then looked at Tableau, they offer a free use, if you publish your charts.
- https://www.tableau.com/
- https://www.tableau.com/en-gb/products/desktop
- https://www.tableau.com/en-gb/community/public and https://public.tableau.com/app/discover
- How to build a sankey chart in tableau at tableau/community, which points at Tableau Chart Templates Part 1: Sankeys** ⭐ by the Flerlage twins, and which I am currently working on. It helped me make this, which could be better; I used their sales sample data which is on this page. The scale of the indexes is wrong, the hover is displaying too much.
- and How to build sankey diagram in tableau without data prep from the Information Lab which I have not yet read
- How to build a sankey chart in tableau by Alfred Chan at the data school; really? this is hard! I used this but may give up on Tableau.
2020
- How to make a sankey diagram in excel, by google
- Here’s an article on using Excel & VBA.
- A cloud based generator, needs investigating,
- as does this one, http://sankeymatic.com/
- A blog article on Microsoft’s Power BI blog about Sankey diagrams (I have done this twice before).
- And what google suggests foe Libre Office.
- Here’s a list at a site called Sankey Diagrams.
- And it seems, there’s always Tableau.
Quite a few articles point at “R”.
The Microsoft answer is Power BI,- here’s their Getting Started page, and is it free? This page suggests it might be … but then you may have to deal with a new DML.
Featured Image: from datascience-enthusiast.com/
Sankey diagram is a very useful visualization to show the flow of data. Many people create using R or other tools which require you to do some or extensive coding. But ChartExpo provides you a better and easiest way to create the Sankey Diagram in no time without coding only on few clicks.
I decided to have another go. I added some links mainly about using Tableau.