Sankey chart

A Sankey diagram is a visualization used to depict a flow from one set of values to another. The things being connected are called nodes and the connections are called links.

Setting up Sankey chart Properties

Best Situations to Use Sankey chart

  • To show a many-to-many mapping between two domains.

  • To display multiple paths through a set of stages.

Example: To show mapping on Energy and Resource Flows.

Properties

You can access the chart-specific properties from the Design page. It gets listed under the Chart Properties icon on the right-top panel.

General Settings

  • Exclude Global Filter: The view gets excluded from the Global Filter condition by putting a checkmark in the box.

  • Style: Select a style to display the data (the provided choices for this field are Gradient, Source, Target).

    • Gradient: The color pattern will be gradient from source to target

    • Source: The color pattern will be from the source to near of target one & for the target another color.

    • Target: The color pattern will be one for the source & up to the target end another color given.

  • Animation- If the Animation option is enabled, the View will display in an animated format or if disabled it will be static at the position.

  • Label Font Size: This is applicable for the labels from 0 to 25, by default label size will be 10

  • Label Font Style: There are 2 types Normal & Italic which will reflect to label

  • Label Font Weight: This is of 5 types: Normal, Bold, 300,600,900. Changes will be seen to the labels

  • Line Opacity: This will define the opacity of the links connecting the nodes, the value should be less than or equal to 1

  • Node Gap: This is to define the gap between nodes (interlink lines) from 0 to 20, by default it will be 8

  • Show Percent Value: This will show the percentage value of actual data if the checkbox is enabled or the actual value of data if the checkbox is disabled.

  • Show Tooltip: If the checkbox is enabled, tooltip will come & vice versa

Color

  • Show Random Color: When the checkbox is disabled it will show the color given on “Level wise color” properties & if enabled it will show random multiple colors.

  • Label Font Color: Select a Label Font Color using the color pallet.

  • Level Wise Color: This is to show the color of the chart as per user requirements.

Sankey chart displaying changes based on the General Settings and Color Properties

Insights

  • Text: Provide any information regarding the chart. If any digit or character is required to be highlighted, put it inside two asterisks. (E.g., *70%* or *skills*).

  • Text align: There are three alignments to align the text.

    • Left

    • Right

    • Centre

  • Position: There are two options to position the text.

    • Bottom

    • Right​​

The modified chart view after the chart properties are applied

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