Sparklines are fun and very insightful. They are easy to create, easy to maintain and fit into any dashboard.
But there is one tiny problem with them. Usually we have a lot of data, but we don’t to visualize all of it. We just want to visualize latest 30 days trend or last 12 months trend or QTD or something similar. What then?
In this video, learn a powerful and very simple way to create dynamic sparklines using Excel.
Create dynamic sparklines in Excel – Video
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Sparklines = more power to your dashboards
I add sparklines to all my dashboards. They are elegant, space-saving and insightful. They are an integral part of my Excel School online class on Advanced Excel & Dashboard reporting. Sample this dashboard:
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How do you use sparklines?
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Hello...
In Power BI I have data that includes months by name only (e.g. May, April, December...)
I need to build charts etc. but i need the months to go chronologically... not alphabetically... I cannot seem to find the fix to this.... once again, my data does NOT have an actual date attached to it (like 02/01/2023)....only month names... can i use a helper table wher i id the month names as numbers 1 thru 12? and if so, how do i manage this to work for me ?
Thank you.
~Keith
You need to setup an extra table to map each month name to a running number. A simple 12 row table like
Jan 1
Feb 2
Mar 3
..
Dec 12
Then create a relationship between this month table and your month column
Now, go to "table view" in Power BI and set the sort by column to month number for the month name column on this new table.
Finally, use the new table's month name whenever you need to refer to the month name in the visuals.
They will be chronologically arranged.