Filled State Map's Diverging Color Scales with Slicer

[ineedham]

I’m trying to create a filled map/choropleth with a category slicer controlling three distinct maps with diverging color scales.

I’ve created a filled map based on state salary data with three salary categories: annual, hourly, and per visit. 

The data looks like this:

 

When I add the slicer on Category, all the correct values show up, but there’s no variation in the filled states. Every state is the same solid color, regardless of the value.

Even when I try to change “Diverging” in the Data Color section at the bottom of the Format tab, the Data Color section at the top with a lone color overrides it:

The values in the the annual category are obviously much higher than those in the hourly and per visit categories: values in the ten/hundred thousands vs values in the tens.  I’m not sure if this is what’s causing problems. 

Also, I tried uploading the data with one row per state, and each of the 3 salary categories in different columns, but I’m not sure how I would create the lone category slicer with three separate fields:

Any ideas?

[Eric_Zhang]

@ineedham

Try to remove category from legend of the filled map, then the color diverging should work in the first case in your post.
Based on my test and observation, the legend field in a filled map doesn't make sense.

[ineedham]

Thank you, Eric,

I removed Category from the Legend.  

My issue is still that I don't know how to create a different diverging color scale for each of the 3 categories in the slicer (I'm not even sure it's possible).  Setting the diverging color scale applies to all categories, which is a problem for my data because the annual salary data values are much larger than the hourly and per visit values.

[Eric_Zhang]

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@ineedham wrote:

Thank you, Eric,

I removed Category from the Legend.  

My issue is still that I don't know how to create a different diverging color scale for each of the 3 categories in the slicer (I'm not even sure it's possible).  Setting the diverging color scale applies to all categories, which is a problem for my data because the annual salary data values are much larger than the hourly and per visit values.

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@ineedham

Based on my test, to get a different diverging color scale, you may have to use 3 individual filled maps, with the color saturation filled by measures as below. A slicer is not necessary in this case.

HourlySal = CALCULATE(MAX(Table[Salary]),Table[Category]="Hourly")

PerVSal = CALCULATE(MAX(Table[Salary]),Table[Category]="Per Visit")

AnnualSal = CALCULATE(MAX(Table[Salary]),Table[Category]="Annual")

[ineedham]

Adding those measures was a great idea, but my ultimate goal was to toggle between maps on one page, without having to create 3 separate tabs/maps.  I found a solution: the default Slicer Visual created the problems I mentioned above, but the Custom Chiclet Slicer I downloaded from the PowerBI Visuals pages works perfectly.

Thanks for your help, Eric.

[Eric_Zhang]

@ineedham

Thanks for your sharing. 🙂

Just one question to confirm, did you create a different diverging color scale for different categories in one filled map?

[ineedham]

No, I didn't.  The scales were automatically adjusted to the min and max of each category's values, and the color scale was the same for all 3.