Interaction between filtered visuals

[FedeP]

Hi all,

I am fairly new with PowerBI. I am trying to analyse the results of a survey with this fantastic tool and I am having troubles connecting the interactions between different visuals. I have processed my data so that is in the following form:

Respondent ID	Country	Education Level	Question	Answer
1	DE	Undegraduate	Q1	A1
1	DE	Undegraduate	Q2	A2
1	DE	Undegraduate	Q3	A3
1	DE	Undegraduate	Q4	A4
1	DE	Undegraduate	Q5	A5
2	IT	Undegraduate	Q1	A1
2	IT	Undegraduate	Q2	A2
2	IT	Undegraduate	Q3	A6
2	IT	Undegraduate	Q4	A7
3	US	Doctorate	Q1	A1
3	US	Doctorate	Q2	A8
3	US	Doctorate	Q3	A3
3	US	Doctorate	Q4	A7
3	US	Doctorate	Q5	A8

My goal is to create different visuals for the different questions, and then to analyse the data further by e.g. selecting one particular answer in one of the visuals and see how the same users have answered other questions. As long as I deal with demographic, filters work like a charm. e.g. if I select on a given Education Level I see the correct Country distribution.

The problem I have is with the different question and answers. I have a different chart for each question. In order to create them I filter visuals to get answers for that question only. My goal would be to be able to see the results for each visuals of the participants that have given a particular answer to one of the questions (e.g. I want to see how everyone that has answered "A1" to Q1 has answered the other questions). But when I click on any of my answers, all the other charts data disappear.

I believe the problem is that the set of quesitons and answer are always on the same row. Demographic works well because every row has a connection Country-Education level. But due to the way I store my question-answers results this is not possible.

What I would like to do is the following: given a selected answer, fetch the corresponding "Respondent ID" in the row and interact with the other visuals so that they show only answers from these particular "Respondent ID".

I have tried to look in the forum and other sources but I don't seem to be able to make any progress on this. Has any of you experience with the topic and could help me solving this issue ?

Thanks a lot for your help in advance.

Cheers,

Federico

Edit: to make it clearer, here is an example of what I would like to get.

Here are 4 plots for 4 of the questions in the table I have presented.

Now if I click on A2 for question 2, I see no interactions with other plots.

What I would like to see, is how the users that have responded A2 in Question 2 have also answered the other questions. In this case I know that A2 was answered by users with Respondent ID = 1, 2. So I would expect in all plots to have highlighted the answers provided by these users. Somethign like this:

Below the links for the example excel and PBI files.

MS Excel file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ya9p6nr4h7g4v7j/DataExample.xlsx?dl=0

PBI file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5x2no024bcdkdg/PlotExample.pbix?dl=0

[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

Based on the Table that you have shared, show the expected result with various filter/slicer selections.

[FedeP]

Hi Ashish_Mathur,

Thanks for your reply, your are right it will be much clearer if I show it. Here are 4 plots for 4 of the questions in the table I have presented.

Now if I click on A2 for question 2, I see no interactions with other plots.

What I would like to see, is how the users that have responded A2 in Question 2 have also answered the other questions. In this case I know that A2 was answered by users with Respondent ID = 1, 2. So I would expect in all plots to have highlighted the answers provided by these users. Somethign like this:

[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

Share the download link of the PBI file and also the MS Excel file which you imported into the PowerBI file.

[FedeP]

Hi Ashish_Mathur,

Here you have the link to the files you have requested:
MS Excel file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ya9p6nr4h7g4v7j/DataExample.xlsx?dl=0

PBI file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5x2no024bcdkdg/PlotExample.pbix?dl=0

Thanks for you help. Please let me know if you need any further information.

Best,
Federico

[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

I have not tried to get your desired result but i have been able to generate a matrix with your desired results.

Hope this helps.

[FedeP]

Hi,

thanks a lot for your support. That's a good step already, but harder to visualize that graphs. What would it take to translate it into visual interactions ? Would a different structure of the data help ?

Regards,

Federico

[Ashish_Mathur]

You are welcome.  i do not know how to visualise that matrix.

[lbendlin]

Your expectations align more with the way the Qlik associative model works across network graphs.  In Power BI you have a stricter adherence to data models and object  hierarchies.  You can still achieve your desired outcome but it will be much more manual and requires you to remember prior results like in this scenario

selecting one particular answer in one of the visuals and see how the same users have answered other questions

where you need to manually adjust the filters.  It doesn't take a lot of effort but it is certainly not seemless.

[FedeP]

Thank you Ibendlin,

Do you think there is any sort of measure or anything I can use to do that ? Otherwise, how could I apply such filters ?

Best,

Federico

[lbendlin]

You can apply these filters manually.