Hi friends,
I have a question. One of my service providers sends me each month a dataset, similar like the table below
Each colomn has the data of one specific month. Is it possible to make a bar chart in Power BI, based on a dataset in this format? In xls it is no problem, but I haven't found the Power BI solution yet...
Hope to hear soon from you!
Cheers,
Sander
| jan-19 | feb-19 | mrt-19 | apr-19 | mei-19 | jun-19 | |
| Number of lost and found items | 14 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 8 |
| Number of visitors | 1250 | 1298 | 1344 | 1752 | 982 | 1134 |
| Number of reserved parking places | 1149 | 1188 | 1289 | 1547 | 972 | 988 |
| Number of lost badges | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
@Anonymous The best solution is to unpivot your data in query editor, to do so, follow these steps
- open query editor
- select your first column
- right click and then choose unpivot other columns
It will create two columns in your dataset, attribute and value
- rename attribute column to month
Now in Power BI, on bar chart, you can use month column on x-axis and value column in value section.
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@Anonymous The best solution is to unpivot your data in query editor, to do so, follow these steps
- open query editor
- select your first column
- right click and then choose unpivot other columns
It will create two columns in your dataset, attribute and value
- rename attribute column to month
Now in Power BI, on bar chart, you can use month column on x-axis and value column in value section.
Subscribe to the @PowerBIHowTo YT channel for an upcoming video on List and Record functions in Power Query!!
Learn Power BI and Fabric - subscribe to our YT channel - Click here: @PowerBIHowTo
If my solution proved useful, I'd be delighted to receive Kudos. When you put effort into asking a question, it's equally thoughtful to acknowledge and give Kudos to the individual who helped you solve the problem. It's a small gesture that shows appreciation and encouragement! ❤
Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution. Proud to be a Super User! Appreciate your Kudos 🙂
Feel free to email me with any of your BI needs.
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