Sankey Diagram Napoleon. The classic archetypal example of such a diagram predating captain sankeys by 29 years is minards 1869 diagram of napoleons troops advancing on and then retreating from moscow in 1812 13. This type of band graph for illustration of flows was later called a sankey diagram although matthew henry phineas riall sankey used this visualisation 30 years later and only for thematic energy flow.
They are typically used to visualize energy or material or cost transfers between processes. The frst example is from minard who was a pioneer of the. The entities being connected are called nodes and the connections are called links in which the width of the arrowslinks is proportional to the flow rate and are used to show their magnitudes.
They are typically used to visualize energy or material or cost transfers between processes.
The classic archetypal example of such a diagram predating captain sankeys by 29 years is minards 1869 diagram of napoleons troops advancing on and then retreating from moscow in 1812 13. Minards maps and sankeys diagrams. Charles minards map of napoleon s disastrous russian campaign of 1812. In minards classic sankey diagram of the march of napoleon to moscow and back the thickness of the line shows the size of napoleons armythe nodes are where the line changes direction.