The Dependency Wheel

A dependency wheel is an attractive and useful chart type, commonly used to visualize relations or dependencies between nodes (or elements) in the chart. Its nodes are laid out along the outer edges of the circle with connections are drawn between them inside the circle. In addition to visualizing connections, the magnitude of each connection is also easily shown.

The demo below displays the 2016 BRICS export in a million USD. BRICS is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The connections, in this case, illustrates trade between BRICS countries. They are “encoded” by using connector width to illustrate trade volume and color to illustrate country or origin, slightly desaturated for better visibility.

A dependency wheel is an attractive and useful chart type, commonly used to visualize relations or dependencies between nodes (or elements) in the chart. Its nodes are laid out along the outer edges of the circle with connections are drawn between them inside the circle. In addition to visualizing connections, the magnitude of each connection is also easily shown.
The demo below displays the 2016 BRICS export in a million USD. BRICS is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The connections, in this case, illustrates trade between BRICS countries. They are “encoded” by using connector width to illustrate trade volume and color to illustrate country or origin, slightly desaturated for better visibility. […]