Welcome to floweaver’s documentation!

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floWeaver generates Sankey diagrams from a dataset of flows. For a descriptive introduction, see the paper Hybrid Sankey diagrams: Visual analysis of multidimensional data for understanding resource use. For a more hands-on introduction, read on.

Getting started

Note

You can try the tutorials online without installing anything! Click here to open MyBinder.

Start by installing floWeaver:

Then the tutorials introduce the concepts used to generate and manipulate Sankey diagrams:

Real-world examples!

The examples gallery has real-world examples of how floWeaver has been used.

Cookbook

Shorter examples of how to do common tasks, and the examples from the journal paper:

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome.

Citing floweaver

If floweaver has been significant in a project that leads to a publication, please acknowledge that by citing the paper linked above:

  1. C. Lupton and J. M. Allwood, ‘Hybrid Sankey diagrams: Visual analysis of multidimensional data for understanding resource use’, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 124, pp. 141–151, Sep. 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.05.002

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