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Hello,
I have some ideas for my report, but sadly, with my limited capability, I cannot visualize it. I want to count the skills most popular for each department and have a bar chart for that. The original data structure is in the below form.
I would like to somehow visualize/count the number of staff in department A has skill AI and all that.
Your help is much appreciated.
Thank you
Best,
ihaveapaincake
Department | Staff | Skills |
A | John | AI, ML |
A | Lily | Java, Angular, Cloud |
B | Max | Java, Angular |
C | Robert | Mobile |
D | Tom | React JS |
E | Crist | Java, Angular, ReactJs, Python, Jenkins |
F | Taar | Angular, NodeJs |
Hi @Anonymous
let's say that you have a disconnected table 'Skills' that contains all the skills. Such filter/slicer table would be required. You can create manually or using dax (let me know if you need help in that).
now you can create a measure as follows
Count =
COUNTROWS (
FILTER ( 'Table', CONTAINSSTRING ( 'Table'[Skills], MAX ( Skills[Skills] ) ) )
)
Then place the measure in the y-axis of a stacked bar chart the drag 'Table'[Department] to x-axis and Skills[Skill] into the legend
Hello,
That would be nice if you would suggest me how to create the Skills table. I am a novive with PowerBI and DAX, so your help is much appreciated.
Also, can I ask why we use MAX(Skills[Skills]) for counting?
And I do not get the concept of creating measure. How will Power BI process when you stack the measure, skills and department name into such chart?
Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Anonymous
You can manually insert it or just type it in excel and then import it. Please let me know if you're still facing problems.
I mean that all skills could be detected and counted for every department. For example, the result desired would be as follow: (headcount value would be larger than 1 if that department has 2 or more members knowing that skill)
Please tell me if it is still unclear
Department | Skills | Headcount |
A | AI | 1 |
A | ML | 1 |
A | Java | 1 |
A | Angular | 1 |
A | Cloud | 1 |
B | Java | 1 |
B | Angular | 1 |
C | Mobile | 1 |
D | React JS | 1 |
hi @Anonymous
what do you mean by "all that" in "skill AI and all that. "?
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