Feedback loops in a sankey diagram

[Heuver]

Does anyone know how to create feedback loops in a a sankey diagram? 

Example:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/circular_economy/sankey.html

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

go to the settings of the Sankey visual and enable loops.

[v-shex-msft]

HI @Heuver,

AFAIK, the current power bi sankey visual seems not able to achieve the effect as you shared. Perhaps you can submit an idea for this requirement or try to use script-based visuals(e.g. R, Python) to manually plot your graphs.

Sankey visual documentation | powerbi-visuals-sankey (microsoft.github.io)

Panta Rhei - R package for sankey diagrams (r-project.org)

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[Heuver]

I've been studiing the Panta Rhei package for R aswell. But i first want to make an attempt in Power BI 

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

my personal favorite is Sankey Diagram (csaladen.es)  - they have the best rendering in my opinion.

[Heuver]

Thank you. This is pretty good indeed, but as soon as include loops the Sankey diagram gets pretty soon real messy. In the end i-am hoping to to be able to make much more complicated sankey diagrams. I don't think this will be a solution in the end.

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

go to the settings of the Sankey visual and enable loops.

[Heuver]

Thank you for your help!

I'm making my first steps in Power BI (fun!)

Why is the feedback flow overrlapping the B to C flow? Is there a way to keep them separate?  

         B1 (90) ==> C (90)

/

A (100)

\

      B2(10) ==> A (10) (loop)

[lbendlin]

you can drag the categories around for a better view.  Note that the renderer may put them back when you modify the fields.

[Heuver]

Thank you for your reply!

I can drag all categories around except for the loop!!!