Show date as x-axis in scatter plot

[wuyu]

Hi,

I want to create a count of something by day in scatter plot. Currently I'm converting date to day of year because scatter plot only allow numeric values as x-axis, but I want to show it as a date (or month) How can I do that?

FYI, I don't want to use line chart because the minimum category width is still too large for a graph with more than 200 categories.

Thanks!

[wuyu]

Hi,

I want to create a count of something by day in scatter plot. Currently I'm converting date to day of year because scatter plot only allow numeric values as x-axis, but I want to show it as a date (or month) How can I do that?

FYI, I don't want to use line chart because the minimum category width is still too large for a graph with more than 200 categories.

Thanks!

[rafaelmpsantos]

in your dimcalendar Create the columns YEAR as Number, Month As Number, Day as Number...and then they in x-axis and drill down yout scatter plot. it will work

[wuyu]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply! Can you be more specific about your solution? I don't know how to create columns in  dimcalendar.

Thanks again.

[rafaelmpsantos]

Hi... you may do this with dax or powerquery... 

IN DAx
ColumMonth - Month(dimcalendar[Date])
ColumnYear - Year(dimcalendar[Year])
ColumnDay - Day(dimcalendar[Day])

in Power query 
Just select de column DimCalendar[Date],
go To
Menu>AddColumn>Date>Year>Year
Menu>AddColumn>Date>Month>Month
Menu>AddColumn>Date>Day>Day

[MvdVecht]

I have a similar issue and tried the above. Unfortunately , the moment you drill down it assumes equal spacing between every data point. This is technically incorrect and I need to be able to show the true scale (varying distance between the datapoints relating to varying time between samples).