Data Manipulation - Scatter Plot

[magtuto]

I am fairly a newbie in Power BI, I am just trying to figure out how I can create a scatter graph. I have seen the example on tutorials in YouTube via power BI and the tutorial in https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-tutorial-scatter/ but I have not been able to get anywhere.

The issue I am having with is the way the data is represented at the moment. I am taking it from a database. The header of each column are as follows, Company ID, Audit ID, Risk, Security, Operations, Manage Changes (as per below).

| Company ID | Audit ID | Risk | Security | Operations | Manage Changes |

| 1                   | 2            | 0      | 1           | 2                 | 5                           |

| 2                   | 4            | 4      | 3           | 2                 | 4                           |

| 3                   | 5            | 3      | 2           | 2                 | 2                           |

• Hence in the Company ID and Audit ID columns the data is unique and incremental.
• From the Risk column to Manage Changes, the data is from 0-5 depending on the result of the audit.

1. I want to create a visual (Scatter graph is what I think would best illustrate) that groups all the the findings (ie. 0,1,2,3,4,5) on the X Axis.
2. Group by Risk, Security, Operations, Manage Changes in the Y axis.

In a way at the simplest form of the question, I want to create multiple line chart that has the gratings on the y axis and Risk, Security, Operations, Manage Changes on the X axis.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @magtuto,

According to your description, you want to drag multiple columns to the Scatter visual’s X and Y Axis, right?

Based on test, it is impossible to drag multiple columns to Scatter visual’s X and Y Axis, it only support one field in X axis and Y axis. You can drag “Risk, Security, Operations, Manage Changes” columns to Details filed and use drip down/up feature to view the detail graph.
 

If you want to view these values more clearly, you can use the Clustered column chart, it supports multiple column, screenshots:
 

 

Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng

[magtuto]

Xiaoxin_Sheng

Thanks for the reply.  

After much procrastination, so that I cant get the desired effect, I broke the data into sections so that I can get a quasi scatter graph.

I agree that because the data is represented in such a way, it was imposible to create the scatter graph I was after.

[Anonymous]

Hi @magtuto,

Is there anything about Scatter char you not clear? If you have, please feel free to post.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng