ricklupton / Floweaver
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by Rick Lupton <http://www.ricklupton.name>_ and Contributors_
Many kinds of data can be thought of as 'flows': energy and materials moving
through industry, money flowing through the economy, telephone lines moving
between providers, voters moving between parties. floWeaver helps you to
exchange and analyse flow data and visualise it using Sankey diagrams <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram>_.
For example, here is some data on flows of fruit from farms to customers:
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With floWeaver you can visualise this as a variety of Sankey diagrams depending on what you want to show:
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Although there are a variety of tools for working with flow data and Sankey diagrams in particular contexts, there are no open data formats for sharing data between tools and domains. We aim to provide a common data format and data converters to support interoperability and open data.
You are free to copy, modify, and distribute floWeaver with attribution
under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE <LICENSE>_ file
for details. If you find it useful please acknowledge that by citing floWeaver
(see below <#citing-floweaver>_).
Get started using floWeaver
floWeaver is a Python package, but you can successfully use it as a data analysis
tool even without too much familiarity with Python. The best way to get started is
to use it in a Jupyter notebook <http://jupyter.org/>_ (more advanced users can
use it outside the notebook environment to export JSON/SVG but this is still
under development; see this comment <https://github.com/ricklupton/floweaver/issues/34#issuecomment-385040059>_).
🚀 Try floWeaver online with no installation: Quickstart tutorial on Binder <https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/ricklupton/floweaver/master?filepath=docs%2Ftutorials%2Fquickstart.ipynb>_.
To install floWeaver locally, you need Python 3 installed (you might want to install it
using Anaconda or Miniconda <https://www.continuum.io/downloads>); see the installation page <https://floweaver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html> for full details.
Installation using conda
You can install floweaver using conda:
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conda install -c conda-forge floweaver
You likely also want ipysankeywidget <https://github.com/ricklupton/ipysankeywidget>_ to show Sankey
diagrams in the Jupyter notebook. Install it using conda:
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conda install -c conda-forge ipysankeywidget
(that's it — the jupyter nbextensions are enabled automatically when using conda)
Installation using pip
Alternatively, you can install floweaver using pip:
.. code-block:: console
pip install floweaver
You likely also want ipysankeywidget <https://github.com/ricklupton/ipysankeywidget>_ to show Sankey
diagrams in the Jupyter notebook. Install this using pip and enable:
.. code-block:: console
pip install ipysankeywidget jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix ipysankeywidget
ipywidgets also needs to be enabled. You might have already done this, but missing it out is a common cause of problems so it doesn't hurt to do it again!
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jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
Quickstart tutorial
To get started, open the quickstart tutorial <docs/tutorials/quickstart.ipynb>_ in
Jupyter notebook and step through the notebook cells to produce the fruit example shown above.
Find out more 📖
Tutorials, cookbook examples, and API documentation are all available on ReadTheDocs <https://floweaver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>_
If you have a question that isn't answered please open an issue on GitHub <https://github.com/ricklupton/floweaver/issues>, if there isn't one there already. You can
also use the Gitter chatroom <https://gitter.im/floweaver/Lobby> for discussion and questions.
Contributing 🎁
Thanks for your interest in contributing! There are many ways to contribute to floWeaver:
sharing examples of work done using it, suggestions for improving the documentation, examples
of things that are more difficult than they should be or don't work, as well as actual fixes to
code and documentation. To get started see CONTRIBUTING.md <CONTRIBUTING.md>_ and our code of conduct <CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>_.
We have a detailed Roadmap <https://github.com/ricklupton/floweaver/projects/2>_ showing what we
are working on up to May 2018; beyond that there is the longer-term Roadmap <https://github.com/ricklupton/floweaver/projects/1>. We also have good first issues grouped by type of contribution <https://github.com/ricklupton/floweaver/projects/3>.
How does it work?
floWeaver builds on the approach described in the paper Hybrid Sankey diagrams: Visual analysis of multidimensional data for understanding resource use <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.05.002>. It uses ipysankeywidget <https://github.com/ricklupton/ipysankeywidget> and d3-sankey-diagram <https://github.com/ricklupton/d3-sankey-diagram>_ for actually drawing the Sankey
diagrams.
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Citing floWeaver
If floweaver has been significant in a project that leads to a publication, please acknowledge that by citing the paper linked above:
R. C. Lupton and J. M. Allwood, ‘Hybrid Sankey diagrams: Visual analysis of multidimensional data for understanding resource use’, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 124, pp. 141–151, Sep. 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.05.002
and/or citing the software itself; you can get a citation of the latest version from Zenodo <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596249>_.