I'm trying to visualize the SO Developer Survey in Tableau. I have a side-by-side stacked bar chart. On the x-axis I have job satisfaction, separated by gender. (So, columns: job satisfaction, gender, both are dimensions). On the y-axis I have "most important aspect of a job opportunity" (So, rows: measure values, with each value being a COUNT).
I would like each bar to total to 100% so for each value in measured values I have set the quick table calculation to "Percent of Total" and am computing using cell, but when I do so, every value appears to be equal/100% within the bars.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Each value should be some percentage, all totaling up to 100%.
I was trying to follow this tutorial: http://kb.tableau.com/articles/howto/stacked-100-percent-bar-chart
Percent of total computed by cell will always give you 100%. Tableau is telling you that each cell represents 100% of the value for that cell. You will need to change your compute using to get the correct answer.
Here is an example using the "superstore" data set that ships with Tableau. To calculate the percentage breakdown for each region I use the Percent of total table calculation and calculate it by "Pane" which means that the percentage is showing me a value per region (so, "technology" represents 33.999% of sales in the "central" region):
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I'm trying to put this in a line graph to show the percentage of the OnDuration over a monthly period
I have put the expression below in the 'values' part of the chart and formatted the y-axis to percent but the output is not coming out as I would expect. My inability at maths is probably letting me down here!
=Sum(Fields!OnDuration.Value / Fields!TotalSecondsInMonth.value)
The 'PercentageON' field is just something i've added in Excel. This would be the correct percentage for an individual employee in one month. On my graph I would like to show the percentage for the whole department. There would
I'm struggling with charting some data in SSRS with a column chart. The data in my SQL select returns a number of devices and their battery level as a decimal e.g
Device 1, 90%
Device 2, 90%
Device 3, 80%
Device 4, 30%
I have rounded the real battery percentage so the view can only ever output, 100 to 0 in 10% chunks.
I then have a column chart in SSRS which counts the number of devices which fall into each 10% and charts them. The issue is that in this example only the columns for 30%, 80% and 90% appear, along with their headings. What I would like is to show all of the titles from 0 to 100 but only draw a column in where there is a record.
I've tried forcing the scale with 10 increments but that doesn't help. I guess this question is two fold. Is there a way that I can force SSRS to display the column headers even though there is no data for those specific headers? Any other way that this can be achieved if not?
I have a feeling that I might need to do something in the select to force the data to include these but not sure how I might do that.
Here is an example of the chart currently:
As you can see, I only get column titles for 30, 80 and 90.
I have an SSRS report with a bar chart with multiple series by CountryName Category group. What I want to do is have gridlines which split each country like below:
However in SSRS the major gridlines seem to interval with the line in the middle of the country name when the grid interval is set to 1 like below:
Can someone point me in the right direction into how to rectify this?
Also is there a way of adding the X axis in SSRS to start from zero like I have in my first graph?
Thanks
You can do it, there is an offset property on the grid lines (horizontal and vertical are separate). Click one one of the gridlines and look in the properties pane. Change the offset to 0.5.
Gives you this.
I'm not sure what you meant about starting from zero on the X-Axis, you have negative values so you'll start from a negative number. If you meant you wantde zero aligned to the middle. You can do that to. You need to set the min and max values of the horizontal axis to the following
Min Value:
=MAX(ABS(Fields!MyValueField.Value), "MyDataSet")*-1
Max Value will be:
=MAX(ABS(Fields!MyValueField.Value), "MyDataSet")
Basically we take the ABSolute largest value and use that as the extent (*-1 for the min value). The problem is that zero might not show so you'll have to play around with the Axis properties maybe to get that working. I'm sure it's possible but I don't have time to test at the moment.
My test data is not great as the number are large
I have basically loosely followed this link
http://www.angelsbiblog.com/2012/02/improve-data-visualization-in-your-ssrs.html
and made the below linked graph. Its one dataset, I have simply pulled in Gross Profit and Sales fields. Neither are calculated fields. I put them in 2 different chart areas, but then as per that link, made the chart areas the same size so they overlay.
*Apologies for a photobucket link instead of inserted image but I don't have 10 reputation points to be able to insert images.
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag447/AndrewJacksons/IncomeandProfit_zpse074ac02.jpg
what I want to do, is as illustrated by that inserted green arrow in the graph image, is raise up the Zero line for the Income bars (yellow) to the same level as the Profit/Loss(Blue-Red).
I also want the vertical axis to preferably have the same axis, so i dont have to have that secondary axis on the right.
However the main thing is the graphs sharing their zero line. I have made the Profit bars smaller I width than the yellow bars, so in a month of blue profit, it would simply sit neatly inside the yellow income bar.
I haven't added expenses because it should be obvious what they are by the height differential btw Income to Profit or to the Loss.
Any ideas much appreciated.
I have just experienced this problem, but this page did not solve it.
Dan's answer ("simply set the minimum and maximum values for the vertical axes on both areas manually") came close, but did not solve the problem for me because I needed the axis to be automatically calculated. If the maximum of the two datasets is something like 193,456 then you get that exact value as a label on the axis rather than the sensible value of 200,000.
The solution is to allow SSRS to calculate the axis labels automatically but to trick it by using both sets of data in each chart. Then you hide the data set that you don't want the user to see.
In each chart I made the data series of interest a column chart and the other data series a line chart (without markers), as all you need to do is set the fill color for the line series to None. If you try the same with columns for the other series the invisible columns affect the position of the visible columns even if they have been set to zero width.
Make sure both series in the chart use the Primary Vertical axis. Go into properties for the Income series > Go to "Axes and Chart Area", and make sure that the series uses the primary vertical axis:
EDIT: The chart is fixed when I use a stacked chart instead of a stacked percentage chart, but this still doesn't tell me what is wrong with using the percentage chart.
I have a stacked percentage chart which is going from 0 to 10000% instead of 0 to 100%. It appears as if the values are formatted correctly (they add up to 1.01 due to rounding), and even dividing all the values by 100 in the query does not change it.
This is how the chart renders:
with the following Vertical Axis Properties:
I have a table below (with identical number formatting but with 2 percentage points), however that displays as expected:
Finally, here is the raw data set with an additional sum column not reflected in SSRS:
Has anyone come across this issue before? If I manually set the range of the chart from 0-100% (0-1) I can only see that bottom blue series.
Yep. I've seen exactly this. The numbers that the percent chart axis generates are in the range 0 to 100. But when you apply the number formatting as a percent, then the numbers are multiplied by 100 for display.
The trick to fix/work around this is to set the display format to only add the percent sign, not really format the number as a percent. Happily, this requires just one character:
In the Number format for the axis, switch the Category to "Custom." If you just switched from Percentage, you will see something similar to 0%.
Insert a backslash before the percent symbol: 0\% to indicate that you need a literal percent symbol, not to format the number as a percent (multiplied by 100.)
Voila.