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I am attempting to create a sankey diagram using D3 visualization. I would like to know how do you take the dataset embeded in the javascript (in json as nodes and links) and recreate it as an external tsv file so that I can use the pbi.dsv() function to connect the D3 visual to the dataset in the report
var margin = {top: 1, right: 1, bottom: 6, left: 1}, width = pbi.width - margin.left - margin.right, height = pbi.width - margin.top - margin.bottom; var formatNumber = d3.format(",.0f"), format = function(d) { return formatNumber(d) + " tuples"; }, color = d3.scale.category20(); var svg = d3.select("#chart") .attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right) .attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom) .append("g") .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")"); var sankey = d3.sankey() .nodeWidth(15) .nodePadding(10) .size([width, height]); var path = sankey.link(); function createChart( energy ) { sankey .nodes(energy.nodes) .links(energy.links) .layout(32); var link = svg.append("g").selectAll(".link") .data(energy.links) .enter().append("path") .attr("class", function(d) { return (d.causesCycle ? "cycleLink" : "link") }) .attr("d", path) .style("stroke-width", function(d) { return Math.max(1, d.dy); }) .sort(function(a, b) { return b.dy - a.dy; }); link.append("title") .text(function(d) { return d.source.name + " -> " + d.target.name + "\n" + format(d.value); }); var node = svg.append("g").selectAll(".node") .data(energy.nodes) .enter().append("g") .attr("class", "node") .attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + d.x + "," + d.y + ")"; }) .call(d3.behavior.drag() .origin(function(d) { return d; }) .on("dragstart", function() { this.parentNode.appendChild(this); }) .on("drag", dragmove)); node.append("rect") .attr("height", function(d) { return d.dy; }) .attr("width", sankey.nodeWidth()) .style("fill", function(d) { return d.color = color(d.name.replace(/ .*/, "")); }) .style("stroke", function(d) { return d3.rgb(d.color).darker(2); }) .append("title") .text(function(d) { return d.name + "\n" + format(d.value); }); node.append("text") .attr("x", -6) .attr("y", function(d) { return d.dy / 2; }) .attr("dy", ".35em") .attr("text-anchor", "end") .attr("transform", null) .text(function(d) { return d.name; }) .filter(function(d) { return d.x < width / 2; }) .attr("x", 6 + sankey.nodeWidth()) .attr("text-anchor", "start"); function dragmove(d) { d3.select(this).attr("transform", "translate(" + d.x + "," + (d.y = Math.max(0, Math.min(height - d.dy, d3.event.y))) + ")"); sankey.relayout(); link.attr("d", path); } }; var energyData = {"nodes":[ {"name":"A"}, {"name":"B"}, {"name":"C"}, {"name":"D"}, {"name":"E"}, {"name":"F"}, {"name":"G"}, ], "links":[ {"source":0,"target":1,"value":2}, {"source":1,"target":2,"value":4}, {"source":2,"target":3,"value":30}, {"source":2,"target":1,"value":5}, // Looper {"source":4,"target":2,"value":5}, {"source":4,"target":5,"value":5}, {"source":5,"target":6,"value":5} ]} createChart( energyData )
Hi @TeddyH could you solve it? I'm trying to use the D3.js sankey graph in power bi and I'm getting a whyte report.
To understand how to do so we would recommend to go through these resources:
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