Circular Sankey Diagram Tableau. Here is a rather simple one showing the relation between top 20 cricket players and their country of origin. The things being connected are called nodes and the connections are called links.
He uses tableau to draw sankey charts i prefer to call them relationship diagrams alluvial diagrams or even spaghetti diagrams. In this post i will describe step by guide to create a sankey diagram using tableau pubilc. First of all i want to say this post is hugely indebted to olivier catherin and his post four years ago on building sankeys in tableau and jeff schaffer whose work olivier built off and countless others i probably don t even realise.
Sankeys is best used when you want to show a many to many mapping between two categorical dimensions.
Drag tc percentage label onto the label mark. Drag the sub category from detail mark to the label mark. Reason being i have spent 31 years of my life in mumbai and local trains have been part and parcel of everyone s life in mumbai. Sankey chart in the tableau is a great diagram.
