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Aimeeclaird
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Helper IV

Stacked Area Chart - Data Structure

Hi all, hopefully I can explain my question clearly enough - apologies in advance if not, i'm new!

 

I have a data set which is based on information collected from a questionnaire completed by students every quarter. 

 

I want to compare in a visual (i'm thinking a Stacked Area Chart but open to suggestions) each assessment question's average score by;

  • Region
  • School
  • Individual student (I have a slicer on the page to select the student you want to review visualisations for)

My data looks like this:

 

Student IDSchoolRegionQuestion 1Question 2Question 3Question 4Question 5
BA1BANE13334
BA1BANE33344
DD2DDTS44445
DG4DGTS55354
DG3DGTS24534
GG1GGNE54433
GH2GHNE33333
RF1RFNE33333
RF1RFNE44544

 

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v-juanli-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Aimeeclaird 

As suggested above, unpivot other columns,

Capture5.JPGCapture6.JPG

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matrix above shows total average scores per region and school,

clustered column chart shows every question's average scores per region or school.

 

Best Regards
Maggie
Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-juanli-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Aimeeclaird 

As suggested above, unpivot other columns,

Capture5.JPGCapture6.JPG

Capture7.JPG

matrix above shows total average scores per region and school,

clustered column chart shows every question's average scores per region or school.

 

Best Regards
Maggie
Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Aimeeclaird , a Better option is to unpivot data and use it

https://radacad.com/pivot-and-unpivot-with-power-bi
Transpose : https://yodalearning.com/tutorials/power-query-helps-transposing-data/

 

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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

@Aimeeclaird - So typically in that case you will want to unpivot your question columns. At that point achieving what you want should be trivial.



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