NVIDIA released their July quarterly results today. If you look at their results from a year ago and 2 years ago, the changes have been dramatic (click to enlarge): You can read the whole story of a financial report using a Sankey diagram, and by using the same scale across years, you can see visually … Continue reading "NVIDIA – 3 years of growth"
I’ve posted the latest NYC Mayor diagram as the first post on my Instagram account. I plan to post the various new Data diagrams there as they are updated on this site – quarterly results, etc. Consider following me over there. 🙂 As part of that effort, I’ve put together a linktree page as well, … Continue reading "New Instagram & Linktree"
Once a week until the results are truly final, Vote NYC is posting updated counts and I am updating the graph accordingly. The results have not changed significantly; in fact, the margin of victory for Mamdani over Cuomo has so far been slowly increasing. I find it interesting to graph the various editions of the … Continue reading "Update: NYC Mayoral Democratic Primary figures as of 7/15"
The unoffical results have been posted, so here is a diagram showing how the voting rounds went. In the 3rd round, Zohran Mamdani had 56% of the votes to Andrew Cuomo’s 44%. Data Source: Vote NYC > Ranked Choice Results > Mayor/Democratic > Interim Rounds
In anticipation of this year’s NYC Mayoral primaries (being held today), I’ve put together a diagram of the previous Democratic primary, from 2021. Some notes:
I’ve added diagrams for Microsoft’s recent quarterly results. Here is the most recent quarter vs. the same one a year before (using the same scale): The pictures are quite consistent except for the $10M increase in Service revenue and the corresponding increase in costs. Visit the Microsoft page for more. One other note: the buttons … Continue reading "Data: New Microsoft Diagram (Sep 2024…
Some new example financial diagrams are posted – the latest quarterly results for NVIDIA and for Apple. There’s a fun new feature on each of these pages as well: The top diagram on each page now has a ‘public link‘ that lets you use it as the starting point for a diagram of your own. … Continue reading "Data: New NVIDIA & Apple diagrams"
A nice little milestone today: the SankeyMATIC github repository has reached 900 stars:
If you are a regular user of SankeyMATIC and would like to contribute to the continuing improvement of this site, consider joining. There are 4 tiers of support. Above the lowest tier, you can get a link back to your own site from the About page. At the highest tier, you can also have your … Continue reading "New: SankeyMATIC has a Patreon!"
There’s a new Sample Diagram to try out at the top of the Build-a-Diagram page: Journey, which demonstrates how you can produce traceable paths for multiple players across multiple stages by using a specific approach to encoding your data. It was added in February of this year. The conditions required for this kind of diagram … Continue reading "New Sample Diagram: “Journey”"
This News page is now a proper weblog, no longer a manually-maintained static page. This means several good things: It’s easier to update!Making a new post takes way less effort than it did before, and I plan to take advantage of that to post updates here much more often. A bunch of history has been … Continue reading "New, improved News Page!"
I’ve added a new tab to the top menu bar: Data: Interesting Diagrams from the Real World. The first examples there show financial results for companies over time, with the first (of several) being Apple. You may have already seen such diagrams presented elsewhere in Sankey form. What’s new here is: Here’s a static screenshot … Continue reading "New Site Section: Data"
There have been many changes to SankeyMATIC in the last year. One quick snapshot of what’s changed can be seen in the updated header image on social media which shows off new examples of what you can do on the site; the old & new images are attached here so you can see some of … Continue reading "Before & After: Social header image"
I haven’t written much about my development approach to this project – It’s not TDD, not BDD, but EDD:“Embarrassment-Driven Development”. Basically years of conversations with myself that go like this: – “Hey, [cool advanced feature] would be really awesome.”– “It doesn’t support [extremely basic feature] yet though, Steve.”– “Ouch. You’re right. That’s just embarrassing. Let’s … Continue reading…
Two upcoming SankeyMATIC Label features about to ship – New Feature #1 – Placement & sizing Names and Values can be placed on separate lines and can be given different sizes. The Job Search example shows how this can allow larger & more readable labels by using the available space differently: New Feature #2 – … Continue reading "More on New Label Features"
New Feature in progress: More control over your labels Below is a preview of some updated example diagrams, ‘Job Search’ and ‘Financial Results’: (cross-posted from vis.social/@SankeyMATIC)
A new feature is live! More details (and code) to come… (cross-posted from vis.social/@SankeyMATIC/)
Fun things I’ve been learning lately about the modern ways to do things on the web: As always, MDN Web Docs has been invaluable for documentation and examples. A cool feature is cooking! (cross-posted from vis.social/@SankeyMATIC)
Adapted from a Mastodon thread. Friends: I have been spending time in the Land of Somewhat Challenging Geometry Algorithms. After an extended stay there, I return to you with some visible improvements to share. Improvement #1: A better layout engine! SankeyMATIC has new ideas about how to arrange Nodes and Flows. It now puts more effort … Continue reading "Big updates: Better layout, new controls"
Been busy making lots of changes, but haven’t been making lots of announcements. Fixing that now! Below are some highlights from the period April through early October, 2022; some of these items may get expanded posts in the future. (The more recent major layout changes will get their own separate post soon.) Try out these changes … Continue reading "New Feature Roundup!"