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Drisgoal
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Creating a Scatter Plot by Month Year with quantitative data as individual data points

What I am trying to accomplish is recreate this Tableau Chart in Power Bi.  It is a scatter plot using Year and Month as the X axis, and a measure on the y axis.  I also have a legend associated to the individual data points.  

Drisgoal_0-1741865052393.png

 

I am having some difficulty recreating this cart.  The reason being the Date.  I can only seem to create the chart based on the Year, not Month Year.  

Drisgoal_1-1741865156824.png

When ever I try and add sort by Month, I get the following error message.

Drisgoal_2-1741865236892.png

 

I created a column for Year Month, but that also did not work resulting in the same error.

 

I have read many articles and I am still not clear on how I can recreate this chart.  I know I need to use some kind of DAX fuction, but I am not sure how to do this.  If there is anyone that maybe able to help accomplish this I would greatly appreciate the help.

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @Drisgoal ,

 

Please create a new calculated column and use it as the x-axis of the scatter chart.

YearMonth = FORMAT([Date], "YYYY-MM")

 

Result:

vlinhuizhmsft_0-1741915758846.png

 

Best Regards,
Zhu

 

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
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Hi @Drisgoal ,

 

Please create a new calculated column and use it as the x-axis of the scatter chart.

YearMonth = FORMAT([Date], "YYYY-MM")

 

Result:

vlinhuizhmsft_0-1741915758846.png

 

Best Regards,
Zhu

 

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.

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