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How best to structure matrix style data from Excel
Hi - I'd like some advice on how best to transform this data from Excel using the query builder
The data is a survey where there are a list of questions with a cooresponding numeric result, entered on a given date against an ID that represents the group of respondents (i've simplified here for the sake of example)
| Team ID | Date | Question 1 | Question 2 | Question 3 | Question 4 | Question 5 | Question 6 | Question 7 | Question 8 | Question 9 | Question 10 |
| ABC | 16/12/2021 | 7.8 | 1.2 | 5.4 | 6.7 | 8.5 | 5.2 | 1.4 | 5.6 | 7.7 | 9.2 |
| DEF | 23/12/2021 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 9.2 | 8.5 | 1.2 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 7.6 | 9.9 | 4.7 |
I'd like to be able to separate the results from the questions but keep the relationship
I would ideally like to keep the source data in this format since it will be easiest for data owners to enter and maintain
bd4 the best is to unpivot the data:
transform data -> select team and date column -> right click -> unpivot other columns
it will give you two more columns, called Attribute and Value, and rename these as you see fit. Close and apply
And now you can filter by attribute or team or date and visualize the value of each question the way you want.
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- parry2k
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bd4 the best is to unpivot the data:
transform data -> select team and date column -> right click -> unpivot other columns
it will give you two more columns, called Attribute and Value, and rename these as you see fit. Close and apply
And now you can filter by attribute or team or date and visualize the value of each question the way you want.
✨ Follow us on LinkedIn
Learn about conditional formatting at Microsoft Reactor
My latest blog post The Power of Using Calculation Groups with Inactive Relationships (Part 1) (perytus.com) I would ❤ Kudos if my solution helped. 👉 If you can spend time posting the question, you can also make efforts to give Kudos to whoever helped to solve your problem. It is a token of appreciation!
⚡ Visit us at https://perytus.com, your one-stop-shop for Power BI-related projects/training/consultancy.⚡
