The chart was posted as part of the Tableau Workout Wednesday 2022. The Tableau chart was a challenge I posed myself. I wanted to show that with Deneb, PowerBI can be elevated to a next level visualization tool.
Dataset
The dataset can be found on the Workout Wednesday link above.
Additional fields created
% Successful Products
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% Successful Products =
VAR __Successful =
CALCULATE(
[# Products],
'Product'[Product Type] = "Successful Products"
)
VAR __allproducts =
CALCULATE(
[# Products],
ALL('Product'[Product Type])
) + .0000000001 //added to display records with 0 values
RETURN
DIVIDE ( __Successful, __allproducts ) + .0000000001 //added to display records with 0 values
Profit Ratio
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Profit Ratio =
VAR __Profit =
SUM ( Profit[Profit] )
VAR __Sales =
SUM ( Profit[Sales] )
RETURN
DIVIDE ( __Profit, __Sales )
Fields used
- Product-Category mapped to cat
- Product-Type mapped to typ
- Product-SubCategory mapped to sub
- % Successful Products mapped to per
- Profit Ratio mapped to rat
Specification
Since completion of this challenge, I’ve learned that there is an easier way to set the tick marks as in this example. See Axis > Ticks > tickBand for more details.
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{
"data": {"name": "dataset"},
"title": {
"text": [
"#WOW2022 - WEEK 4: How have successful products performed?",
""
],
"font": "Segoe UI",
"color": "#333333",
"fontSize": 17,
"align": "left"
},
"hconcat": [
{
"layer": [
{
"mark": {
"type": "bar",
"height": {"band": 0.7},
"tooltip": true
},
"encoding": {
"y": {
"field": "sub",
"type": "nominal",
"title": "",
"axis": {
"grid": true,
"labelOffset": -10,
"labelAlign": "left",
"labelPadding": 0,
"tickSize": 70,
"tickOffset": 10,
"labelFont": "Segoe UI",
"labelFontSize": 11
}
},
"x": {
"aggregate": "mean",
"field": "per",
"type": "quantitative",
"scale": {
"domain": [0, 0.45]
},
"axis": {
"titlePadding": 10,
"title": "% Successful Products",
"titleFont": "Segoe UI",
"titleFontSize": 13,
"titleFontWeight": 600,
"format": "%",
"grid": false,
"labelFont": "Segoe UI",
"labelFontSize": 11
}
},
"color": {
"value": "#5557EB"
}
}
},
{
"mark": {
"type": "text",
"align": "left",
"baseline": "middle",
"dx": 3,
"font": "Segoe UI",
"fontSize": 11
},
"encoding": {
"text": {
"field": "per",
"type": "nominal",
"format": ".0%"
},
"x": {
"aggregate": "mean",
"field": "per",
"type": "quantitative"
},
"y": {
"field": "sub",
"title": "",
"type": "nominal"
}
}
}
]
},
{
"encoding": {
"x": {
"field": "rat",
"type": "quantitative",
"scale": {
"domain": [-0.2, 0.5]
},
"axis": {
"titlePadding": 10,
"title": "Profit Ratio",
"titleFont": "Segoe UI",
"titleFontSize": 13,
"titleFontWeight": 600,
"format": "%",
"minExtent": 10,
"domain": false,
"grid": false,
"labelFont": "Segoe UI",
"labelFontSize": 11
}
},
"y": {
"field": "sub",
"type": "nominal",
"title": "",
"axis": {
"grid": true,
"labels": false,
"labelOffset": -10,
"labelPadding": -24,
"tickSize": 0,
"tickOffset": 10
}
}
},
"layer": [
{
"mark": "line",
"encoding": {
"detail": {
"field": "sub",
"type": "nominal"
},
"color": {
"value": "#e0e0e0"
}
}
},
{
"params": [
{
"name": "products",
"select": {
"type": "point",
"fields": ["typ"]
},
"bind": "legend"
}
],
"mark": {
"type": "point",
"filled": true,
"size": 90
},
"encoding": {
"color": {
"field": "typ",
"scale": {
"domain": [
"Successful Products",
"Other Products"
],
"range": [
"#5557EB",
"#8A8BF1"
]
},
"title": null,
"legend": {
"legendX": -60,
"legendY": -50,
"orient": "none",
"labelFont": "Segoe UI",
"labelFontSize": 12,
"symbolType": "square",
"symbolSize": 200
}
},
"opacity": {
"condition": {
"param": "products",
"value": 1
},
"value": 0.2
}
}
}
],
"resolve": {
"legend": {
"opacity": "independent"
}
}
}
]
}
Config
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{
"autosize": {
"type": "fit",
"contains": "padding"
},
"facet": {"spacing": 0},
"axis": {
"domainColor": "#ddd",
"tickColor": "#ddd"
},
"concat": {"spacing": 0},
"view": {
"stroke": "#ddd",
"domain": true
}
}
External references
- Ranged Dot Plot - used as the starting point.
- Horizontal Concatenation - used to combine the two charts.
- Legend binding - highlight product selected by clicking the legend.
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