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bfaivre
9 years agoRegular Visitor
Plot Values (y axis) vs. Time (x axis)
Hello, I’m sure I’m missing something really basic here. But I have data that I retrieve from a database. The first columns represent timestamps and the second columns represents values. I simply...
Greg_Deckler
9 years agoCommunity Champion
Make sure that your Value is an actual number and didn't come in as Text. You can go to data model, the Modeling tab and check its Data Type and convert it if necessary. Otherwise, you are correct, all you will get is a Count aggregation for a Text column in your visual.
- bfaivre9 years agoRegular Visitor
Hi,
Thanks for the response. My values are the appropriate types ("Date/Time" and "Decimal Number"). Still giving me the counts.
Brian
- Greg_Deckler9 years agoCommunity Champion
So, in your Values area for the visualization, can you use the drop down and select a different aggregation than Count? Or, can you change the default aggregation type in the model?
- bfaivre9 years agoRegular Visitor
Yeah - I can change the aggregation (see screenshot below):