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Smooth lines
Is there any way to smooth lines on a line chart? I'd like it to flow more like this one made in Excel, than the one below it made in PBI. Many thanks
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?
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".
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.