http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/how-not-to-sankey/ A Sankey diagram says more than 1000 pie charts Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/how-not-to-sankey/comment-page-1/#comment-16353 Sounds cool … looks uncool | Sankey Diagrams Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:02:29 +0000 http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/?p=1078#comment-16353 [...] have been presenting “bad examples” of Sankey diagram before (like this one, or this one), and I have a few more in my collection. The following one from an PowerPoint [...] [...] have been presenting “bad examples” of Sankey diagram before (like this one, or this one), and I have a few more in my collection. The following one from an PowerPoint [...]

]]> http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/how-not-to-sankey/comment-page-1/#comment-10211 Gabor Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:45:04 +0000 http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/?p=1078#comment-10211 This is what happens, when a user pieces together a Sankey diagram by using the arrows available from the drawing shapes available in Microsoft Office. You <i>sort of</i> get something like a Sankey, but unless you keep the bent arrows square (width=heigth) you get distortions and thus violations of energy conservation. The dangling flows to show contributions are wrong in any case. This is what happens, when a user pieces together a Sankey diagram by using the arrows available from the drawing shapes available in Microsoft Office. You sort of get something like a Sankey, but unless you keep the bent arrows square (width=heigth) you get distortions and thus violations of energy conservation. The dangling flows to show contributions are wrong in any case.

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