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Scatterplot jittering

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Alex Dantin on 13 Oct 2015 01:09:02

Jitter is a technique for scatterplots which allow multiple datapoints which have the same value to be displayed

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Phil Curtis on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:21

RE: Scatterplot jittering

Yes, badly needed! Otherwise any discrete but particularly weekly, monthly etc scatterplots look pathetic and hide values (even with transparency).

Rob Collie's solution is excellent, but we can't fiddle applying DAX custom clustering each time, when it could be easily built into the scatterplot itself for the very EDA it was built for (like R, Python etc - and we don't want to resort to those either, as we lose all the interactivity!).

Half a decade later and no update - please sort it out!

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Alex Dantin on 05 Jul 2020 23:04:47

RE: Scatterplot jittering

Though it should be an option for the standard scatterplot visual, see Rob Collie's solution for how to achieve this here - https://powerpivotpro.com/2017/11/jittered-scatter-charts-power-bi-via-dax-power-query/

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Phil Curtis on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:44

RE: Scatterplot jittering

Agreed. PowerBi Scatter Chart is excellent, but without jitter (like R ggplot), it can become useless when you can't see multiple datapoints with same values.