I have finally gotten a column chart working for my data set. However, it only outputs fifteen columns, and the data set has 36 columns. It will output fifteen columns (or less if I limit the set to only items that are non-zero...but my boss wants all of the data shown) no matter what width the graph is set to.
Is there an absolute hard-coded column limit for graphs made by Google's Charts API, and if not, is there a way I can tell the graph to output everything?
I've just run into this myself, almost 7 years after the original problem report. Columns representing the right-side of my data are being silently un-drawn.
Let's look at the big picture. Somebody provides a charting library. They should be expected to show the data as best they can. In the case of a column table, that would be to show the first and last columns, and then choose which intermediate columns to show based on an algorithm that takes available pixels into account. It would then let the user zoom in to see the full set of columns within the selected range. This gives the developer using the chart the freedom to show an unlimited amount of data and not have to worry that someday columns at the end are simply not drawn.
Google is already choosing to not print some of the column labels due to space constraints, so they're already halfway to understanding the big picture.
Nowhere in the documentation does it explain this truncation of columns due to space constraints, or for any other chart type that I've seen. But you sure can choose your background colors in great levels of detail.
If I had known this restriction going in, I would have chosen a different chart package and not wasted my time. My choices now are to break my "Lifetime" data into yearly graphs that fit in the available space, which is clunky as hell, or migrate to a different chart package. Thanks Google. :^(
P.S. I tried to post this as a comment to the OP, but after using SO for years I don't have enough points...
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I'm trying to create a line chart visualization that shows a constantly increasing sum over time. I think this would be called a cumulative total or a running total, but most of the questions I've seen on here have been about showing a total at the bottom of a matrix, subtotals, etc. Instead, I just want to visualize the units from the previous date being added to the current date, and so on. Not sure if this would be a custom column in the dataset or if there is an existing function for this.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Goto Quick Measures, in the "Calculation" dropdown, select "Totals - Running Total", pull in Base Value (what you want to aggregate) and Field (probably your calender) and here you are!
I'm creating a report in Power BI that shows performance for many measurements across a few different levels of granularity.
The performance is being aggregated into a 100% Stacked Bar Chart visual that displays the percentage of measurements in each of the three buckets "Above, Below, or At Target"
Aggregation Buckets Example
From there, I need to apply an additional level of logic that has some hard-coded thresholds to determine if the bar is "Great, Good, Okay, or Bad". For example: "If you have less that 20% below target (red), and 50% above target (green), you're doing great!" Then I have to put that text in a tool tip so that it pops up when they hover over the bar visual.
This is all working fine, and until the "Percentage of measures Below Target" DAX measure everything is being done on the SQL side.
The issue is at the tool tip step. They don't just want the "great!" value, they want the background for Great/Good/Okay/Bad to show as Blue/Green/White/Red.
I figured this would be easily done with a table visual and conditional formatting based on the value of a measure, but there's a quirk with how these three things interact when the table only has a one row of data. When there's only one row with only a measure, the table considers it aggregated, which
prevents the conditional formatting from taking effect. However, when there are multiple rows, or a non-measure value is added and de-aggregated, the conditional formatting works fine (this is a picture of the whole table, the extra column only has one value) The issue here is that the meaningless column is bad for presentation.
I'm learning Power BI/DAX as I go, so any help understanding the issue or how I can work around it would be appreciated.
In PowerBI I'd like to build Non-standard matrix very similar to the report in Google Analytics.
What do I have now:
I want to change my subtotal to measure, which is calculated as the difference in percentage of the two values
What I want to get:
In Power BI, there is no way to override the subtotals of a matrix with a calculation. Part of the challenge is that you know there are only two date ranges, but as far as Power BI is concerned, there could be any number of date ranges.
It's difficult to tell from your question exactly what input you have and what output you're looking for. Further, the numbers in your screenshots are obscured. However, one consideration would be to solve the problem using measures (i.e. a measure representing the first date range, a measure representing the 2nd date range, and then a measure calculating the difference between them). You may need to change the layout of your visual a little to make this work and the specific design would depend on how static your date ranges are.
We have been conducting a survey within our business and I will shortly be preparing the results to share with a number of internal customers.
The number of survey respondents is around 700, so I want to allow the people looking at the reports to be able to filter the data to identify trends according to the demographic and organisational groups identified within the report (sample data below).
What I am looking to do is present the information in a way that prevents the users from using a combination of the slicers to identify the responses of specific individuals.
I wanted to obscure the results for cases where the group of people selected is less than 5 individuals and created the following measure:
[Anonymised Rowcount]:=if(COUNTROWS(('Table1'))<5,0,[RowCount])
However the results it gives aren't quite what I need:
I want all the values of [Anonymised Rowcount] to be zero when the combination of slicers gives me less than 5 active rows in the table.
I'm getting a zero in any columns when the count for that column falls below 5.
NOT the desired result!
I've tried various combinations of ALL() and ALLSELECTED(), but I've not yet managed to come up with a correct combination the will give me a count of the rows in the table that ignores the column, but respects the slicer selections. My attempts so far have either given me every row in the table, ignoring the columns and slicers, or only the selected rows within each column heading.
EDIT:
Main question resolved
I've found the Solution using:
[Anonymised Rowcount]:=if(COUNTROWS(ALL('Table 1'[Question 1]))<5,0,[RowCount])
Bonus Question: Does anyone have a more elegant way of obscuring the results of small groups than just setting all the responses to zero.
I'm trying to tidy up a sheet with the following problem, and would appreciate any advice.
My sheet has 7 "master columns" and about 4000 rows. It was compiled by converting a load of PDF documents.
The master columns are made up of merged minor columns, but at various parts of the data, the minor columns that make up each master column are different.
eg The first master column is made up of merged columns A-H for the first 30 rows, but for the next 25 rows it's made up of merged columns A-G etc.
As I said, overall there are still the same 7 master columns from top to bottom, but the merging is different throughout...
Can anyone think of a way to fix this without doing it all manually?
Copy your horrible spreadsheet into Word with Home > Clipboard – Paste, Paste Special, Unformatted Text and replace ^t^t with ^t. Replace All repeatedly, until Word has completed its search of the document and has made 0 replacements. Copy back in to Excel.
This is not tested on your image so there might be some issues – perhaps column misalignments (where even Word’s limited regex may help to add back tabs where suitable). The result should be no merged cells – mind you someone on SE described these along the lines of “A creation of the Devil to test us beyond endurance” (ie best avoided).
Try selecting the full document and click unmerge button from the ribbon.
As per the screen shot you provided, you can select all and unmerge but getting the corresponding fields in order might be challenging.
Try using macros to set combined functionalities in a single or combine key presses