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Panenka 1: A Beauty of "No More Cut Labels"

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Panenka 1: A Beauty of "No More Cut Labels"

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About this project

In 2012, he took a deep breath and without hesitation, chipped the ball in the penalty shootout. Andrea Pirlo executed the panenka perfectly to leave England's Joe Hart stranded in goal. Panenka is a penalty kick technique where the player chips the ball down the center of the goal. It's a beautiful technique and very useful in the right moment.

Therefore, I name this content: Panenka! Through this content, I'd like to share techniques that I applied in Power BI, SQL, or Python.

In this session, I wanna talk about the great technique in Power BI that founded by Bas Dohmen: Overcoming Label Cutting in Bar Chart (For the further steps, you can check on his Youtube channel, How to Power BI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiIAkJ9R7mM&t=799s). I will use my latest project to show how useful it is.

When we create a bar chart, sometimes we often face long axis label issue like this: undefinedTo make it looks simply, all we need to do is creating several measures and do a little bit formatting.

Create Label Placeholder

First, we need to create a measure named "Label Placeholder". Why do we need to create this measure? It will act as a place for our bar chart labels later. undefinedWe store the value of 0 for the Label Placeholder. Using Clustered Bar Chart, the Label Placeholders will be look like this: undefinedAs you can see in the Bar Chart, each Customer Name have 2 values, Label Placeholder and Total Profit. The data label of "Label Placeholder" is 0. Later on, we will replace the label using our custom label.

Create a Measure for Custom Label

Next step, we will create a measure of Custom Label for Bar Chart. Since we will display list of most profitable customers, we use [Customer Name] from Customers table. If you want to show list of products, you can use [Product Name] from your Products table.

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A Little Bit Formatting

After we create a measure for custom label, we can apply that measure into Label Placeholder series. undefinedIn the formatting tab, we need to turn on Data Labels >> In Series menu, choose Label Placeholder >> Turn on Custom Label >> Drag and drop "Label Bar Chart - Customer" into Field menu. undefined

Summary

Applying this technique is very useful if you want to deliver solid information in bar chart without worrying about long axis label issue. Happy analyzing! undefined

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