Interrupt Line Charts when there's no data

[Anferrig]

Dear Enterprise DNA forum,

I would like to ask your help to find a solution to this little problem. I am working with a very basic dataset about the top 10 tennis players ranking over a number of years. Just 3 columns: Year, Player, Ranking (1 to 10). Some players appear for many years, often with different ranking, some just once.

In my exercise, I am preparing a line chart visualization to show how their presence in the Top 10 evolved over the time they have been in (Year on the X and Ranking on the Y). For some players, their presence in the Top10 is not continuous, for example this one:

How can I make sure the line chart is discontinued for those years? What Power BI seems to naturally do is just interpolating between the two closest years, like here:

Thanks a lot in advance, really appreciate your support

Ciao

[marcster_uk]

Hi @Anferrig, try setting the X axis type to Categorical instead of Continuous.

[Anferrig]

Hi @marcster_uk, thanks a lot for your reply,

In the view I posted the X axis type is already set on categorical , and it has basically two effects:

• when only one player is selected, it shows in the X only the years which have values for him, maybe I am doing something wrong there, but the line is continuous
  

  

• when all the players are selected, all the years are present in the X and the line is discountinued (as I was aiming) but a number of players are not shown. Actually there must be 10 players per year as in the dataset
  

  

• here the view with all the players and X axis set on continuous, the line is continuous but all players shown
  

  

My goal is to have discontinued lines, all players and all the years in the X axis also only when one player is selected (This last point probably would solve all the issue as could keep categorical)

Once again, a big thanks for everyone’s support

Ciao

[ctvv3010]

What does the table of this data look like?

Have you tried converting the column shown in the line chart to continuous variable using Power Query?

[Anferrig]

Hi @ctvv3010,

thanks a lot, for your support, here an extract of the data table:

The Rank is a calculated column (-Ranking) the rest is from the original table.

What do you mean by converting the column shown in the line chart to continuous variable using Power Query?

Thanks a lot

Ciao

[EnterpriseDNA]

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[ctvv3010]

Hmm. You might need to convert the year column to Text:

This should solve your problem, I hope.

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[Anferrig]

Hello,

Well, I am still trying to sort it out and make the proposed solution work. Actually I still haven’t managed, but before asking for further help, would like to be sure that I am doing everything correctly.

Will come back on this shortly

Thanks a lot and sorry for the delay