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Sort Text Data in Visual from Most to Least
I am developing a dashboard that will show the top skills our training program is each row is a specific employee with the skills. When I look at the table in Power Bi, it looks something like this:
When I show it as a bar chart, it shows something like this. I tried to sort the axis by the skills, but it will only sort is alphabetically.
I am looking to sort the axis based on the total sum of the skills. For example, AI for Bussiness should be #1 and so on.
tylerbostedt You can unpivot the six skill columns like below example and display the values in a bar chart with Attributes as a legend
After Unpivotting table looks like this, now load this table.
Front end Bar visual:
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Thanks,
Jai 🙂
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Hi tylerbostedt ,
You will find an option to sort the bar chart visual based on a aggregated field. Have you tried that ? Attaching a refrence image below. Here I have sorted count of products in descending order.
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Thanks,
Jai 🙂
I was only able to sort the axis by the count of one of the columns, this is the list:
This was the result:
tylerbostedt You can unpivot the six skill columns like below example and display the values in a bar chart with Attributes as a legend
After Unpivotting table looks like this, now load this table.
Front end Bar visual:
Did I answer your question ? If yes, please mark my post as a solution.
Thanks,
Jai 🙂
