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christinas
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Hello. I was searching for a way to show the Min, 25th percent, Median, 75th percent and max ranges for salaries and found this chart. I was hoping to have the columns be the ranges and the dots be the employee's salary. It will allow me to see who is in range and who the outliers are rather than just the averages. I've searched for the name of the chart but I can't find one. It looks like a column or bar chart and a scatter plot. Does anyone know what this chart is called and how I can recreate it in PBI?

Thank you in advance for any help.

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christinas
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Thank you @DanieleUgoCopp and @cengizhanarslan. I will try both those suggestions. 

cengizhanarslan
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That chart is a Box-and-Whisker plot (often called a Box plot) with individual data points overlaid (sometimes called a jittered dot plot). You cannot get this  with native visuals alone.

 

1) Box and Whisker custom visual (simplest)

  • Use a Box and Whisker custom visual from AppSource

  • Most support:

    • Min / Q1 / Median / Q3 / Max

    • Showing individual points (outliers or all values)

  • Limitation: formatting flexibility varies

2) Deneb (Vega-Lite) – best control

  • Use Deneb to layer:

    • a box plot (quartiles)

    • a scatter plot (employee salaries)

  • This gives you exactly what you described: ranges + dots

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DanieleUgoCopp
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Hello,

I think you can do it with a box plot with jittered points, usually I see it done with box plot but here you have just to change the x axis of the dots.
You can try in AppSource visual to install “Box and Whisker Chart”, add category to Axis, value to Values.
But for sure you can do it with Python visual with seaborn or matplotlib.

Anyway I would just call it a box plot, with some visual differencies.

 

 

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