Sankey diagram Sankey diagrams are a data visualisation technique or flow diagram that emphasizes flow/movement/change from one state to another or one time to another, in which the width of the arrows is proportional to the flow rate of the depicted extensive property. Sankey diagrams c…

Careful Icarus. I was reading another “deckie” on this very site who said weight = mass.

Well, that flight was a short one. Turns out "Captain Sankey: was an Irish -born engineer and captain in the Royal Engineers ,

Here’s my source - Electrify by Saul Griffith [Sankey]

That snip of Napoleon’s losses for the invasion of Russia is a well known exemplar of quality data graphic design. See Edward R Tufte’s books. Some time ago I was trying to reimagine what a good work package might look like which led me to Tufte. There are amazing examples of good design that are s…

From a site listed in the book, this could be the mother of all Sankey diagrams, at least for energy: http://departmentof.energy/

Ah ha, now I see everything. By time you get to the end weight is no longer a force and has become mass. Because you know it doesn’t matter.

You Sir, say “Ah ha”. I say to you: “Ha ha” on your clever word-play.

[image] KPChief: There are amazing examples of good design that are so old it makes you wonder how we ended up with “chart junk” and death by power point efforts. An old story isn’t it? Microsoft with it’s DOS vs Steve Jobs with his Calligraphy class? Or story behind the rewrite of The Desig…

Captain Sankey and his diagram

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Captain Sankey and his diagram

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