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It's a while since I've seen a Sankey diagram. I really don't find it a very helpful way of displaying information, especially not in this zooming format, whic
by bshimmin 12y ago
It's a while since I've seen a Sankey diagram. I really don't find it a very helpful way of displaying information, especially not in this zooming format, which seems incredibly unintuitive - indeed, it took me several minutes to realise that the "arrows" were actually clickable!
- matheweis 12y agoIt's interesting how exposure to certain type of UI/UX can shape our intuition. I see [this type of graph] in Google Analytics on a regular basis, so jumping into this felt very intuitive.
- dandare 12y agoI know what you mean, it's just that after year of research we came to a conclusion that this is the best/only possible way. There are two main problems, 1/ the money flows in multigraph, not a simple tree as many people think, there is no better tool than Sankey for multigraphs. 2/ there are astronomical size differences, the same node can have flows in millions and hundreds right next to each other, the zoomable interface is our best answer. I understand it's unfamiliar but trust me, it's better than 720 tables in PDFs. Also I believe nobody has successful simplified/visualised public finance yet, well maybe except http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_greek.html http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_gree... :)