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Flow visualizations

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Flow visualizations

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- [Instructor] Sometimes what you want to do is communicate how data is flowing. What do I mean by flow? Here's one example. Maybe I want to think about how different ingredients come together to make a good burrito. What you do is you take one to two ounces of tortilla. You add four ounces of meat and two ounces of beans, vegetables and salsa, and one ounce of cheese. Then you end up with nearly a pound of delicious burrito. This is called a waterfall chart. This is used most often in accounting. A more normal example of a waterfall chart in action is the burrito joints themselves might take their food sales revenues in one group, add in their liquor revenues separately, then subtract overhead, labor, and cost of goods sold to figure out their profits. One of the other go-to options to see flow is the Sankey diagram. Here we're looking at burrito ingredients by category. Say we have meat, dairy, and other as three…

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