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kyle_l
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10 years ago

Help needed: Sankey diagram

Hi-

 

Have anyone had success using the Sankey diagram viz that was published recently (mid-December '15) to Visuals Gallery?

 

I downloaded and imported the visual to PowerBI Desktop but couldn't get it to plot. I tried three different data sets-- from real data sets to a tiny toy data set-- but it simply wouldn't plot. It would show a blank box showing nothing but chart title.

 

Did I miss a step? Does Sankey viz require a specific data format for it to plot?

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

-Kyle

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5 Replies

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      10 years ago

      UPDATE: Your spreadsheet did work, I just needed to upgrade to the latest release of Power BI for desktop.

       

      Hi Will, that did not work for me. The visualization is just blank. Here were my steps:

      (1) download the spreadsheet

      (2) open PowerBI for Desktop

      (3) import the spreadsheet table

      (4) select all three fields, creating a table in the viewer

      (5) selected the Sankey visualization

       

      Any advice?

      • kyle_l's avatar
        kyle_l
        Frequent Visitor
        10 years ago

        Thanks, jep!

         

        I upgraded to the latest release of PowerBI desktop and it worked.

    • kyle_l's avatar
      kyle_l
      Frequent Visitor
      10 years ago

      Thanks for pointing me to the example data, BUT it still wouldn't plot (showing only chart title).

       

      Makes me wonder- Do I have download some javascript or d3 component for the visual to show?

       

      FYI, I am using PowerBI desktop. Saved the example data to my local machine and then added the downloaded data to the PowerBI project. Then I try to use Sankey visual with no avail.