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toddjneedham
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7 years ago

Bubble Chart not Changing Sizes

I'm getting odd result from the bubble sizes on a scatter chart. I'm trying to recreate a classic Hans Rosling Gapminder animation (income versus life expectancy over time) and have everything working except the bubble sizes that map to population per country. 

 

It feels like there are only a few, fixed sizes of bubbles and population numbers are being grossly matched to these. By grossly, I mean about 3 or 4 bubble sizes. The photos below show two bubbles of the same size yet with one population double the other.

 

Any MS scatter chart folks here who can explain how bubble sizing works in the current scatter chart?

 

-Todd

 

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4 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    Hi toddjneedham,

     

    Can you please share some sample data for test? If is hard to troubleshoot your issue from snapshot.

     

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

    • toddjneedham's avatar
      toddjneedham
      Regular Visitor
      7 years ago

      PBIX simple demo file

       

      Note that Canada is 100x the population of Ecuador in this contrived example but is clearly NOT 100 times the size/area in the bubbles.

       

      -Todd

      • toddjneedham's avatar
        toddjneedham
        Regular Visitor
        6 years ago

        It's been a year and I've seen no acknowledgement of this bug, no workarounds and no changes in the Scatter chart. Is there a specific place to file bug reports on Power BI?  Thanks.

         

        -Todd

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    6 years ago

    I have the same question.  I would be great if I there was a way to adjust as a gradient of bubble sizes like in Tableau.  Also please(!) add transparency to color selection!  This is needed for scatter charts!