A nice little paper arguing that Chord diagrams are generally harder to understand than Sankney plots for the same data. Relevant for when people will next request the "nice circular diagrams" for a bioinformatics analysis: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3544548.3581119
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Showing Flow: Comparing Usability of Chord and Sankey Diagrams | Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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@modrak_m oh wow I feel so vindicated, I always hated chord diagrams and I'm so glad someone thought to perform this study
@janeadams @modrak_m my gut instinct that all diagrams that are circular in any way (pie charts etc) are bad continues to be vindicated also