Sankey Chart

Sankey chart visualizes volumes of related items between two features. It's also suitable for visualizing flow of material or information from place to other. To use the sankey, following mappings need to be defined

• Start: The feature on the left side of the sankey. Usually it contains textual data, but any data type can be used here.
• End: The feature on the right side of the sankey. Usually it contains textual data, but any data type can be used here.
• Weight: The weight determines the thickness of the flow drawn between the left and right value.

By default, the first dimension has the start mapping, the second dimension has the end mapping, and the first measure is mapped to the weight. If you need to change the mappings, they can be found in the measure, dimension or column settings dialog.

Sorting can be used to set the vertical order of start and end items in the left and right pillars of the sankey. If sorting by the dimension mapped as start or end, the order is set alphabetically by the start or end items. If sorting by the weight, the highest or lowest weight flows are on top.

Creating filters is also possible when clicking the flows in the sankey. The created filter is based on the dimensions or columns that are mapped as start and end. Note that creating filters is not always possible, as there needs to be a meaningful filter rule available that represents the dimension/column.

Sankey is also able to visualize backward flows (i.e., starting point is right side and the ending point on the left side), but sometimes the sankey may not be the best visualization for the purpose. If there are backward flows, you may also want to see the dependency wheel or flowchart.

Use cases for sankey:

• Visualize how two different case or event attributes are linked together. The weight can be the case/event count or numerical case/event attribute, such as cost if it's available.
• Visualize transition between two event types in the process flow.

Here is a sankey example visualizing sales data showing what regions sell what products and how remarkable are the sales volumes.

Use cases for sankey:

• Visualize how two different case or event attributes are linked together. The weight can be the case/event count or numerical case/event attribute, such as cost if it's available.
• Visualize transition between two event types in the process flow.