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boldwake's avatar
boldwake
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Treemap Visual Color differentiation is really hit and miss

All,

 

I am not asking about color saturation...I am asking about the default colors used for each box that heps the user see them as separate data points.

 

I am encountering an issue with the treemap visual where PowerBI is picking good colors for differentiating initially and then it is doing a terrible job followed by picking good colors again. 

 

I have inserted a 2 screenshots to better describe the issue

 

1. I am using a json color theme that has a good range of colors--I've clicked on the formatting pane so you can see that it is not due to the theme's colors choices

 

2. I have not picked any custom colors for any of the data in this visual--they are all on default.  I have even delted the page and re-created it and the same color issues happen

 

3. If you look closely at the picture I have labeled 3 section

 

Section 1: the largest section with good color differentiation

Section 2: 2nd largest section with terrible color differentiaiton--basically it is all orange

Section 3: smallest section with good color differentiation again.

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas and I have tried switching color themes but had limited improvements

 

 

 

 

 

Need Help

5 Replies

  • GilbertQ's avatar
    GilbertQ
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    9 years ago

    Hi boldwake

     

    Could I ask the question why you want to show down to such a level of detail with the TreeMap visual?

     

    I have found in my experience that typically people are more interested in the top or bottom values, which then would make the TreeMap visual work as expected. I find that when there is that level of details, people do not typically go down to that level.

    • boldwake's avatar
      boldwake
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Each box in that treemap is a brand that we sell and not in the picture is brand search function, so it is really easy to look at the top brands as they are the big boxes but also easy to search for the smaller ones and not have to adjust the visual

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        9 years ago

        Hi boldwake,

        From your screenshot, I note that you have same color(Orange) for different categories category  , manually set different colors for each Treemap category  under Data colors.

        Thanks,
        Lydia Zhang