Alluvial diagram example: participant-level data without counts

About this example

You don’t need to aggregate your data first. When each row is one participant, set the value column to “None” and the diagram counts the rows for you.

This works well for cohort data exported straight from a spreadsheet or statistics package, and it avoids mistakes from counting transitions by hand.

The data

Open the example, replace the data with your own, and export the figure as SVG, PDF or a 600 dpi PNG.

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