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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Scatter chart - two data points not in date order

I have an issue with two data points on my XY scatter chart which are not in date order as shown in Fig.1. In this chart, I am trending the output of a manufacturing process ("Crystallinity", Y-axis)...
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  • mahenkj2's avatar
    mahenkj2
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    I have tested your data and could replicate the problem and also understand the grouping by date and legend together and then sorting.

     

    Since last 2 days, I am trying sorting of x axis date with an index column, but somehow it does not allow date.

     

    One more workaround is to use line chart in place of scatter chart, and not use the line color but just the marker color, and sort by date. It works fine even with legend, but you need to specify legend colors manually while publishing the report.

     

     

    Hope it helps.

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi mahenkj2, see the post from FarhanAhmed below. It looks like my data has been sub-sorted by date within each category that is listed in my legend. 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Scatter-chart-two-data-points-not-in-date-order/m-p/2560825/highlight/true#M905750

As requested, here is some sample data between 01 March 2022 and 30 April 2022 so you should be able to recreate the issue I had with the data around 10 April 2022. Let me know how you get on.

 

Spray Date (x-axis)  Powder Batch No (legend)  Crystallinity (y-axis)  
01 March 2022150048458.2
02 March 2022150048459.3
03 March 2022150048461
04 March 2022150048460.5
05 March 2022150048460.2
06 March 2022150048458
07 March 2022150048462.8
08 March 2022150048462.4
09 March 2022150048460
10 March 2022150048462.5
11 March 2022150048465.9
12 March 2022150048462.4
13 March 2022150048467.6
14 March 2022150048465.9
15 March 2022150048461.8
16 March 2022150048458.2
17 March 2022150048454.4
17 March 2022150636954.5
17 March 2022150636959.6
18 March 2022150636959
19 March 2022150636965.4
20 March 2022150636963.36
21 March 2022150636962.62
22 March 2022150636959.79
23 March 2022150636957.2
24 March 2022150636958.89
25 March 2022150636959.86
26 March 2022150636958.68
27 March 2022150636957.2
28 March 2022150636956.3
29 March 2022150636952.19
29 March 2022150636950.44
29 March 2022150636953.62
30 March 2022150636959.97
31 March 2022150636962.67
01 April 2022150636958.54
02 April 2022150636960.71
03 April 2022150636960.73
04 April 2022150636957.15
05 April 2022150636961.28
05 April 2022150636962.15
06 April 2022150636959.19
07 April 2022150636963.87
08 April 2022150636965.37
09 April 2022150636962.89
10 April 2022150636962.45
10 April 2022150636461.95
11 April 2022150636958.55
11 April 2022150636961.78
11 April 2022150636969.94
11 April 2022150636964.53
12 April 2022150636964.61
13 April 2022150636960.96
14 April 2022150636961.93
15 April 2022150636961.43
16 April 2022150636961.82
17 April 2022150636959.21
18 April 2022150636958.02
19 April 2022150636962.94
20 April 2022150636957.67
21 April 2022151428957.89
22 April 2022151428950.62
22 April 2022151428960.45
23 April 2022151428959.66
24 April 2022151428963.6
25 April 2022151428962.59
26 April 2022151428960.36
27 April 2022151428956.49
27 April 2022151428957.37
28 April 2022151428966.5
29 April 2022151428967.71
30 April 2022151428961.3
mahenkj2's avatar
mahenkj2
Solution Sage
4 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

I have tested your data and could replicate the problem and also understand the grouping by date and legend together and then sorting.

 

Since last 2 days, I am trying sorting of x axis date with an index column, but somehow it does not allow date.

 

One more workaround is to use line chart in place of scatter chart, and not use the line color but just the marker color, and sort by date. It works fine even with legend, but you need to specify legend colors manually while publishing the report.

 

 

Hope it helps.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    4 years ago

    Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for! I didn't think to use a line chart as I thought scatterplot would be the right tool.

    I just changed the chart type and I didn't even have to move any of the fields. See below picture, which now shows the two data points correctly at 10 April 2022 instead of sitting within March.