Sankey Diagram

Show flows from one state to the next.

Tutorials and Guides

Examples

Greenhouse gas from wasting food at home

Almost half of wasted food comes from homes, and almost half of that…

Sankey diagrams to show change in opinion

For Bloomberg, Joe Mayes, Andre Tartar, and Demetrios Pogkas show shifts in public…

Exports through the Mississippi River

Drought has caused water levels to drop in the Mississippi River, which is…

Untraced orphans in Ukraine since the war

Sarah Slobin and Joanna Plucinska, for Reuters, report on the challenges of counting…

Active shooter endings

For The New York Times, Larry Buchanan and Lauren Leatherby used Sankey diagrams…

Map of Russian gas exports

Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The…

Passing restrictive voting bills

Bloomberg used a Sankey diagram to show the path of over a thousand…

Leftover Turkey Flowchart

I roasted a turkey. There were a lot of leftovers. But my mom taught me to never waste.

Celebrity name spelling test

Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…

Black boys dropping income levels as adults

Research by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie Jones, and Sonya Porter from the…

Careers after the college degree

Ben Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, was curious about…

Which nations consume the most water?

This Scientific American article by Mark Fischetti and infographic by Jen Christiansen detail…

Where Campaign Spending is Going to

Making use of data from the Federal Election Commission and The New York…

Make Sankey flow diagrams with Fineo, sort of

Whenever I post a Sankey diagram (for example, here, here, and here), someone…

Charted history of airline mergers

Airlines have been merging, going out of business, and growing since forever. Karl…

Vintage Infographics From the 1930s

Someone needs to get me a paper copy of Willard Cope Brinton’s Graphic…