Matricial dot plot

[Océane]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to create a sort of matricial dot plot (I'm not even sure than means something 😉 )

Concretely, I have persons who send messages at certain hours. I would like to have my liste of persons in X axis, all my hours in Y axis and a dot when a person send a message at the corresponding hour.

Should look like that:

3 pm              x

2 pm                         x

1 pm     x                  x

          John   Jane  June

Does someone have an idea how to do that?

Thanks!

Océane

[alexei7]

Hi Océane,

What does your data look like at the moment? 

Can you provide a sample?

Thanks

Alex

[Océane]

I have 3 columns that matter :

ID_Post ; Creation_Hour ; Posting_Author

Every line is for a different post. I can have several hours for a single person (several persons for one hour is unlikely but theoretically possible)

For example, I would have

1 ; 1:00:00 ; John

2 ; 3:00:00 ; Jane

3 ; 1:00:00 ; June

4 ; 2:00:00 ; June

[alexei7 · Accepted solution]

Hi Océane,

Yep I've this working for me.

Firstly create a measure - please change "Table1" to whatever your table is called:

Measure = if(COUNTROWS(Table1)>0,"X","") 

Now in Power BI select the "Matrix" visualisation.

Put "Creation_Hour" as the row, "Posting_Author" as the column and the new measure as your "Values".

Hope that helps,

Alex

[Océane]

Thank you!

Actually, I was hoping for something with dots,  more like a dot plot but with hours in Y axis instead of just number for scale.

Do you think that possible?

But if not, your solution works 🙂

Océane

[alexei7]

I've had a look (and also at some custom visuals), but I can't see a way of doing what you're trying!

Maybe someone else will know a way.

Thanks,

Alex