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Smooth lines
hi. there is not a way to do this in powerbi that i am aware of.
I know that the smoothed line looks good but is it an accurate representation of the data?
This was a while back...any chance this is possible in new version?
Seems like a terrible idea anyway. In that example picture the curves make the lines go higher and lower than the actual data points they're connecting. So the graph is lying. It looks pretty but it's worse than useless for representing data. It's a good thing that we don't have this "feature".
If you do want this feature here you go
https://zoomcharts.com/en/microsoft-power-bi-custom-visuals/
In case the smooth lines would go over or under the actual observed values, yes, wrong, but in case they remain within the observed boundaries, result may well represent reality better than discontinuous observations of a phenomenon. Think of temperature and hourly measurements of it. Cheers.
