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chris9486
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Showing Ratios in a Pie or Graph

First post so please forgive me any nuances.

 

I am new to Power BI - got a new job and they asked me to learn. Been watching YouTube tutorials for 2 weeks solid now. I am starting to build a weekly report, currently done manually from several excel docs which is then putting it into a PowerPoint, it's labour intensive. Since the data layout never changes, just the numbers, I think a dashboard is the way forward.

 

I am struggling with displaying ratios. I have made a table (visualisations) and have a ratio calculation column in this, I was quite proud of myself for working that dax out. But I want to make this more visual. I want it to be in a graph or pie chart. But I can only ever get it to display in percentage terms. I want it to show 1:11 or 1:5 or 1:8. This is what my table looks like

 

Filter on: by manager pay grade

 

AreaManagersStaffRatio
North30.86329.101:11
East31.59213.181:7
South14.92117.951:8

 

Is there a way to display the above in a pie or graph?

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lbendlin
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What's your business statement?  11 staff per manager in the North, and 7 staff per manager in the East?  For that a column chart would be more appropriate.

lbendlin_1-1697902694453.png

 

You can add your ratio column as a tooltip but it doesn't really add value.

 

lbendlin_0-1697902659164.png

 

It's a request to show the ratio of staff to managers in the regions. They wanted it in a graphical form rather than just a table, but to show the ratios also. 

 

I just couldn't think of how to display it but I think the bar charts will work. Thank you.

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