What is a SANKEY diagram (+ examples) ??
Channel: Metabolism of Cities
Date: 2021-08-18

You might have have seen these weird diagrams before in circular economy or material flow analysis studies and wondered what they are and what do they mean? 

These diagrams are called Sankey diagrams! They show flows, their origin and destination as well as their proportion. They enable to have a synthetic overview of the flows entering and exiting the economy and show their proportions.

Example 1 - Material Flow of the EU-27 economy
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/circular_economy/sankey.html?geos=EU27&year=2019&unit=G_T&materials=TOTAL&highlight=0&nodeDisagg=0101100100&flowDisagg=false&translateX=200&translateY=70&scale=0.7&language=EN&xyz=89&material=TOTAL 

Example 2 - Material flow of the Global economy
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.12244 

Example 3&4 - Catalogues of Sankey diagrams
http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/ 
https://multimedia.metabolismofcities.org/datavisualizations/ 

#sankey #sankeydiagram #materialflowanalysis #datascience
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