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irta
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Auto grouping or bin?

I'm looking for something which can do the auto grouping/slice given K values.
We have the table showing execution time by count(X axis is duration time, Y axis is count). As shown below, the graph has a long tail which takes a lot of space.
dur.JPG
What we want is to have 4bins to group all these data, like 0-100, 100-500, 500-2000, 2000-5000, range automatically figured by the value count for each bin(each bin got 1/4 value counts). If we can group this into first 25%, 50%, ... 99% that will be even better. Expected look as below:
expect.JPG
And since we have so many data, it's also hard to do manual grouping. Any idea?
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TeigeGao
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi irta,

According to your description, my understanding is that you want to auto group your data in X-axis to 4 part.

In this scenario, we can use the grouping and binning function in PowerBI desktop. Please refer to the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the field (in this scenario is duration time) you want to group, select “New Group”.
  2. Then configure it like below:111.png
  3. After that drag this bin and count measure to visual, the result will like below:222.png

For more information, please refer to this document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-grouping-and-binning

Best Regards,

Teige

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TeigeGao
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi irta,

According to your description, my understanding is that you want to auto group your data in X-axis to 4 part.

In this scenario, we can use the grouping and binning function in PowerBI desktop. Please refer to the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the field (in this scenario is duration time) you want to group, select “New Group”.
  2. Then configure it like below:111.png
  3. After that drag this bin and count measure to visual, the result will like below:222.png

For more information, please refer to this document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-grouping-and-binning

Best Regards,

Teige

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