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JWorthy
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Creating a survey visual

Hello!

 

I'm very new to PowerBi, I'm running throught the tutorial videos but I couldn't see anything to help me with the below.

 

I'm trying to represent some survey feedback as a visual:

- There are 5 questions in the survey

- Each question has a different number of possible responses

- Instances is the number of times a person selected a response to a specific question.

 

How do I represent this information as a nice visual - possilby a stacked column chart

 

The data is below:

 

I've tried to create a stacked column chart, as below, but it's not working correctly. I had planned:

- Questions on the x axis

- Instances on the y axis

- Colour of the column segments denotes response.

- Size of the coloured column segments shows number of instances for that response.

 

How would I create this?

 

My failed attempt below :-(

 

 

Thanks for your help! :-)

  • Hi JWorthy,

     

    Based on the image and the data you show you need to place:

     

    Axis - Question

    Value - Instances

    Legend - Response

     

    Should work as you want.

     

    Regards,

    MFelix

  • I've realised what the problem was.

     

    The data type was ABC 123. When I changed it to just number it stoped making the values a 'Count'

     

    Thanks for your help.

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  • Hi JWorthy,

     

    Based on the image and the data you show you need to place:

     

    Axis - Question

    Value - Instances

    Legend - Response

     

    Should work as you want.

     

    Regards,

    MFelix

    • JWorthy's avatar
      JWorthy
      Advocate I

      Hi MFelix,

       

      Thanks for your help.

       

      When i set the axis, legend and values as you suggest I get each of the coloured segments as 1 unit large each, why is this happening? Is it something to do with 'Instances' being 'count of instances' when I place it under values? If so, how do I change this?

       

      This is what happened:

      • JWorthy's avatar
        JWorthy
        Advocate I

        I've realised what the problem was.

         

        The data type was ABC 123. When I changed it to just number it stoped making the values a 'Count'

         

        Thanks for your help.