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Can this visualisation be archive? Line chart
Hello all users!
I requiere your help with this challenge! It is about a visualisation easy to create in Excel but I can´t find the way to replicate it with Power BI or maybe it isn't posible.
So with images I think it will be much easier:
- Lets say I measured, for males and females, the average hours of work for two days. So in Excel I can make a pivot table and organise the information as the image below:
- In the legend section of the pivot table I put gender and the values of hours of work are in the axis option. This permits that I can follow a gender by its line or color. Also, the values are in the average option.
- In Power BI I cant see the way to perform this type of row/column visualisation for Line Charts:
- As you can see, the gender categories are in the X Axis and the hours of work corresponds to each color for males and females.
- Can I switch in someway this type of configuration of the Line Chart?
- I know, for example, that the matrix option has an row/column switch; can it be executed in a similar way?
I appreaciatte every comment or suggestion.
Regards,
F.
fjam0 You need to unpivot REC1 and 2 together, in the same step (use Ctrl key or Shift key to select them together and unpivot). So your data should look like this when you're done:
Genero Cargo FRanquicia Nombre PDV Cat Value Fem REC1 5 Fem REC2 5 Fem You still have two columns for REC1 and Cat, but need only 1 column for Cat that lists the REC1 AND REC2 with the value in the column next to it.
If this still doesn't make sense, can you post what your data looks like before the unpivot please?
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You need your Genero (Gender) in the Legend just like you have it in your Excel line cart. It's in the Legend.
Hello Greg_Deckler ,
Thank you for you super fast reply. Unfortunately, PowerBI doesnt let me put Gender on the legend option. Thus, I can upload my pbix file if it's more easy to view.
Regards,
F.
fjam0 Thanks for the pictures - they're helpful. From what I see, you have two fields in the values, REC1 and REC2. You cannot use both a legend and two values, only one OR the other.
If you are wanting these displayed as category axis, then they need to be unpivoted so that you have a table that looks like this:
Gender Category Average Male REC1 4.3 Female REC1 4.4
Male REC2 4.4
Female REC2 4.4
To do this, click Transform Data to open the Query Editor, navigate to your data table that you're trying to graph, and select all the REC values, then click Unpivot (or better way might be to select all the columns that are NOT REC values and click Unpivot other columns, just depends on how much your data will change from Excel).
Then rename the 'Attribute' to 'Category' and 'Values' to 'Average' or whatever names you prefer.
Once you've done that, you can put Category in Category, Gender in Legend and Average in values.
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