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showard40k
Regular Visitor

How would you graph this information?

In the attached I have asked 7 employees if they have ever occupied ANY of the 9 specific position over the course of their 10+ year careers:

  1. Superior Officer
  2. Commanding Officer
  3. Delegated Officer
  4. Investigator
  5. Charge Layer
  6. Assisting Member
  7. Person Charged
  8. Review Authority
  9. Never Acted

 

Do you have any recommendations on how I should go about graphing this in PowerBi? I want to show the frequency and % of each of the 9 positions in something like a graph and if not recommended, then in a table.

 

Note: Data used is fake.

 

Personal ID#In which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Superior OfficerIn which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Commanding OfficeIn which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Delegated OfficerIn which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? InvestigatorIn which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? Charge LayerIn which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? Assisting MemberIn which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? Person ChargedIn which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? Review AuthorityIn which capacity/capacities have you acted within the Military Justice System? Never Acted
1        Never Acted
2Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Superior OfficerOfficer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Commanding OfficeOfficer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Delegated OfficerInvestigatorCharge LayerAssisting Member Review Authority 
3      Person Charged  
4Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Superior OfficerOfficer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Commanding Office       
5Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Superior Officer Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Delegated Officer Charge LayerAssisting Member Review Authority 
6Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Superior OfficerOfficer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Commanding Office       
7Officer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Superior OfficerOfficer Conducting a Summary Hearing - Commanding Office  Charge Layer  Review Authority 

 

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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

PBI file attached.

Hope this helps.

Ashish_Mathur_0-1729210428878.png

 


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

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OktayPamuk80
Helper V
Helper V

Hi,

How about a box whisker plot. With you many employees, it would be than having 9 boxes with each having lots of dots.

Regards,
Oktay

Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

PBI file attached.

Hope this helps.

Ashish_Mathur_0-1729210428878.png

 


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

Thanks Ashish. When I opened your PBIX file, I noticed you used "unpivoted other columns' under Transform Data. In my file, I am using a lot of other changes in "Transform Data" and I think "unpivoted other columns'  will affect my other graphs in my PowerBi dashboard. Is there a way to apply "unpivot other columns" in such a way that it won't affect my other graphs that are using my data? 

Anonymous
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Your solution is so great Ashish_Mathur

Hi, @showard40k 

 If you do not want the unpivoted other columns to affect your report, you can perform the following operation on your original table in Power Query:

vjianpengmsft_0-1729824507097.png

You can apply the super user method to this new query table, so that your original report will not be affected. At the same time, if your original table updates data, this new query table will also be updated.

 

 

Best Regards

Jianpeng Li

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

 

You are welcome.  No, i cannot think of another way.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
OktayPamuk80
Helper V
Helper V

Hi,

you could create something like a buble matrix chart. As this is not a native visual, you might use the charticulator from the visual store. It is a very convenient and funny chart to create. I would go by having rows as Employee (1-7) and the positions (1-9). The frequency would define the bubble size. If you hover on one dot, you would get a tooltip, which you can also configure.

Else, create a matrix using same as above and use conditional formatting for coloring (as heatmap chart).

Regards,

Oktay

 

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What if I have 10,000 employees? What would you recommend in this case? The only information I need to display is the total frequency and % occurences of the following across my company.

  1. Superior Officer
  2. Commanding Officer
  3. Delegated Officer
  4. Investigator
  5. Charge Layer
  6. Assisting Member
  7. Person Charged
  8. Review Authority
  9. Never Acted

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