How Can I Make a Chart Like This in Power BI?

[DHB]

Is it possible to create this sort of chart in Power BI desktop?

Time along the x-axis, categories on the y-axis and a count of something which would determine the size of the bubbles.

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

You should be able to do that with one of the Dot Plot options (e.g., the one by MAQ) in the Custom Visuals marketplace (hit the ellipsis in the visuals section and choose Get More Visuals).  Since you are using Year, you can plot that as a number on the axis in the Dot Plot and it should work.  If you have two category columns to compare, I don't think it would work, and you would need Charticulator or use SVGs in a matrix visual.

Regards,

Pat

[DHB]

Thank you @mahoneypat I've pretty much got it now.  I created a test chart using this;

TEAM	MONTH	GOALS
A	1	10
A	2	2
A	3	20
A	4	15
A	5	20
B	1	7
B	2	12
B	3	11
B	4	28
B	5	13
C	1	6
C	2	1
C	3	0
C	4	9
C	5	11
D	1	17
D	2	5
D	3	4
D	4	16
D	5	10

I've got it to visualise in the way I want using MAQ Dot Plot but somehow the axes labels have switched round.  The x-axis is month but the label says name and vice versa.  Do you know what I might be able to do to switch it back?

[v-yingjl]

Hi @DHB ,

Basically it looks like strange. I have created a dot plot chart based on your picture and it gave me the correct corresponding value:

Maybe you can try to re-create a new chart to check or put the fields like this and use drill down to try:

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Yingjie Li
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[DHB]

Thanks @v-yingjl I've done that but when I flip orientation to horizontal to put Month on the x-axis the titles don't switch with them.  I have to manually overwrite which is fine but not ideal/

[v-yingjl]

Hi @DHB ,

Could you please consider sharing the 'problem' dummy .pbix file for further?

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Yingjie Li

[DHB]

It's not letting me upload a pbix but it's the MAQ Dot plot with the dummy data posted above

[DHB]

@v-yingjl It won't let me add a pbix file but it's basically just the MAQ Bubble chart and I used the test data posted above (20 rows, 3 columns).

[mahoneypat]

This seems weird, but in the format options you can turn on the title and put Month and Team in the title text boxes and those text values will overwrite what is shown.

Regards,

Pat

[MFelix]

Hi @DHB,

Use a scatter chart for this. 

[DHB]

Thanks @MFelix.  The scatter chart won't accept categorical data in the y-axis.  The only way I could make it work was by giving each category a number but then you lose the category values on the axis.

[NamishB]

Hi @DHB 

Please Check the sample outcome, i purposed couple of days back: 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Create-chart-where-the-Y-axis-the-values-are-grouped-in-an/...

at least in power BI you can achieve something like this-

Hope this helps

Cheers,

-Namish B