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bfaivre
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

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...
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bfaivre
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

Thanks for all the input. This still isn't working for me. Surely it can't be that difficult to plot values on the y-axis over time on the x-axis? This is so much of what we do on a daily basis vs. showing the count of the data points (or another aggregate).

 

Does anyone have an viable example or tutorial they can share?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Brian

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    bfaivre
    Regular Visitor
    9 years ago

    Thanks for all the help. I appreciate it. I guess I'm slightly shocked that this ability would not simply exist. Seems like it would be used often.

     

    Brian

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    Greg_Deckler
    Community Champion
    9 years ago

    Well, the concept behind Power BI was to aggregate and visualize data, not just visualize data. That is why they included R visuals though as well as custom visuals capability to fill in some of these holes.