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Unexpected Result With Matrix Conditional Formatting
Hi AUaero ,
According to the reply from the product group, Power BI implements the color gradient as a linear scale. You can set the Middle to a different value if you want, but by default Middle is the average of min/max.
They will take the idea from you into consideration for adding more Auto options to "middle".
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Community Support Team _ Polly
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It appears to be taking the max value of the list and subtracting the min value of the list. That number divided by two and then added to the min value to get the "middle value".
I think you're onto something here. Using your algorithm, I come up with 106,214 as the "middle" value. This jives with with what Power BI is actually highlighting as the middle value.
Did you find this in the documentation somewhere or just figure it out? Regardless, this seems like a dumb way to find the "middle". This approach gives you average of the min and max values. The middle of a set of numbers is the median.