Dynamic "Series" in a line chart
Hi Folks,
Let me try to explain this as clear as I can since the subject title is sort of not clear. For context, my role is card builder within my organization. I am putting together a dashboard that is related to SEM Competitive insights using google auction insights data.
This is my default view of my line chart. Here I have my company (green line) and our competition in blue. I used a simple case statement to make a beast mode that groups all our competitors into a "Competitor" group because there are over 50+ competitors which makes the visual look like a piece of abstract art.
At the top of my dashboard, I have a simple filter that lists ALL our competitors (all the competitors in the competitor group). This is for someone to look at how a specific competitor is doing compared to us. Naturally, when you pick a specific competitor in the filter, it will remove our company/brand from the chart and only show the line chart for said competitor like this:
How would I make it so when someone decides to look at a specific competitor it will still keep our companys metrics in the same line chart? is it even possible?
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Hi @user32470 ,
You'd need to have two records for each competitor in your data set.
Assuming your data looks like this:
Date Competitor Amount 1/1/2020 ABC 500 1/1/2020 DEF 123 1/1/2020 Our Company 987 You'd want it structured like:
Date Competitor Comparison Amount 1/1/2020 ABC Them 500 1/1/2020 ABC Us 987 1/1/2020 DEF Them 123 1/1/2020 DEF Us 987 This way they can filter on the Competitor but still plot the two different series (Comparison).
Alternatively you could utilize a data flow and select only your company's data do a join to the main dataset based on date and include the amounts from both tables so it'd look something like:
Date Competitor Them Amount Us Amount 1/1/2020 ABC 500 987 1/1/2020 DEF 123 987 1/1/2020 Our Company 987 987 Then you'd use Them Amount and Us Amount as your two series and allow the user to filter on Competitor.
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Hi @user32470 ,
You'd need to have two records for each competitor in your data set.
Assuming your data looks like this:
Date Competitor Amount 1/1/2020 ABC 500 1/1/2020 DEF 123 1/1/2020 Our Company 987 You'd want it structured like:
Date Competitor Comparison Amount 1/1/2020 ABC Them 500 1/1/2020 ABC Us 987 1/1/2020 DEF Them 123 1/1/2020 DEF Us 987 This way they can filter on the Competitor but still plot the two different series (Comparison).
Alternatively you could utilize a data flow and select only your company's data do a join to the main dataset based on date and include the amounts from both tables so it'd look something like:
Date Competitor Them Amount Us Amount 1/1/2020 ABC 500 987 1/1/2020 DEF 123 987 1/1/2020 Our Company 987 987 Then you'd use Them Amount and Us Amount as your two series and allow the user to filter on Competitor.
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That make sense! Really appreciate you taking the time to write that out!!
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