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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
Power BI was really built around the concept of aggregating information. You can get around this by using R visuals, I found my other thread:
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Line-Chart-as-quot-Excel-Scatter-Plot-quot/td-p/75954
bfaivre
9 years agoRegular Visitor
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
- Greg_Deckler9 years agoCommunity Champion
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.