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Helper IIUnderstanding when to use a table over a matrix
As I move through my padawan training, I am trying to replicate reports our team uses for their QBR's with customers. One of the slides has this 'table' and before I mess up my data, I wanted to see how I can make columns in the way they are used below. I'm thinking I need to create a hierarchy of the status data to achieve this one, which brings me to the question, when should a table be used vs a matrix? Are there better visuals for this kind of thing? Keep in mind what I want to be able to do is publish these things to a dashboard so they can replicat them right into a PPT for later use
Hi! You can achieve this on with a matrix.
Put your regions in rows. Put quarters in columns. Put the two meaures you will have in values.
Here is an example I made with sample data:
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- audreygerred
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Hi! You can achieve this on with a matrix.
Put your regions in rows. Put quarters in columns. Put the two meaures you will have in values.
Here is an example I made with sample data:
- JediMole
Glad to see what I was doing was correct. Curious as to why the label only shows a number VS the word quarter, even if I change the name in the green box. I'm assuming there's a label someplace I need to 'fix'
- audreygerred
Hi, you can add a column to your date dimension table that will hold the quarter name.
