vetratten

vetratten t1_ja7i7tt wrote

Depends on the data and audience and usually we put in a means to switch between thousands, millions, billions on our dashboards.

For a static like this where the numbers have such a wide range I'm torn as I usually prefer everything to be the same notation. The beauty of the Sankey is you could keep the notation by step. So for instance the far right step being in Millions but the middle step in Billions. It's not perfect by any stretch and I'd still be annoyed that they're not all in billions.

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