How to make an interactive TOPN Chart with Power BI (using parameters)

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If you make dashboards or reports with Power BI, you often get questions like, "but I want to see top 10 products, not just 5" or "can we see top 10 store names instead of all?" from your stakeholders all the time.
In this video, let me present you with an elegant and simple solution to such problems.
A dynamic TOPN chart
What is TOPN?
TOPN is a DAX function which returns filtered table with just top n (or bottom n) values based on a criteria.
For example: We can use it to filter top 10 products out of all products based on total sales.
What is a TOPN Chart then?
A TOPN chart uses the same logic but displays top 'n' items based on a dynamic criteria and evaluation context on the screen.
How do you make it?
We use "parameter" feature of Power BI along with your existing semantic model to create dynamic topn charts in Power BI. Watch the video to understand the process and implement it with your data.
⏱ IN THIS VIDEO:
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0:00 - What is a Dynamic TOPN Chart?
0:20 - Using Parameters to create dynamic topn field
1:25 - Creating Dynamic TOPN Chart with the DAX measures
3:56 - Dynamically filtering the table (or chart) with filter panel
4:43 - Converting the table to chart
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[@unnikrishnansanthosh]

your ideas are amazing, thank you for sharing

[@sakeenasammi1768]

I'm amazed that you bring such concepts and explain it in simplest way. Thank you....

[@chandoo_]

You are welcome :)

[@SaaSLTDDeals]

Wow, such a detailed breakdown on creating a Dynamic TOPN chart! The step-by-step guide is super helpful for PowerBI users. Can't wait to try this out!

[@chandoo_]

You're very welcome!

[@rabiraul623]

I love your voice You are Amazing 💚

[@nandakumar473]

it's really helps people who want to grow in power BI. Thanks!

[@trevorbbeairsto]

Really learning a lot from you, thanks!👍

[@chandoo_]

Glad to hear it!

[@chrism9037]

Great video Chandoo!!!

[@chandoo_]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@user-kv4jq7ve6b]

This is amazing. I just want to understand how you created that Top 10 products bring to certain % of all our sales. And the amount out of total amount?

[@chandoo_]

Thank you. Here are the measures I've used: Top Products Total = CALCULATE([Total Sales], TOPN([Top Products Value], ALL(Products[Product]), [Total Sales], desc)) top products proportion = [Top Products Total] / [Total Sales]

[@user-lk2uv5yo9r]

Thanks, good solution, but not good if you would like to put additional field in chart "Legend" field (for example Department). It will stop to work (will show all and not TOP N).

[@chandoo_]

Thank you. Read up www.sqlbi.com/articles/filtering-the-top-3-products-for-each-category-in-power-bi/ to know how to deal with multi-level ranking.

[@user-lk2uv5yo9r]

@@chandoo_ Thanks.

[@tejaswic5339]

Hi Chandoo, recent subscriber here and really love the content! Can you please help me out with this - How do I find the salesperson with the highest variance for each month?

[@chandoo_]

You can use TOPN for that. Assuming you have a variance measure, =topn(1, all(salespersons), [variance], desc) should give you a one row table with the salesperson. Send that to a function like selectedvalue to see the name.

[@pgkannan]

Excellent thank you

[@chandoo_]

You are very welcome

[@haricoolharan_official]

Nice sir

[@ankittiwari4371]

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[@indrajaravi6945]

What are you looking to upskill in?

[@ankittiwari4371]

@@indrajaravi6945 Just want to upskill myself in finance field only

[@chandoo_]

Hi Ankit... There is no easy answer for this. What is good for you depends on many factors. I suggest learning data analysis for a while, try a project or two and see if you find it interesting + challenging. Don't give up at first or tenth hurdle though. Push thru for a while and if you still feel negative about it, then pivot and do something else. All the best. If you want a course recommendation, I suggest joining my Excel or Power BI courses. They are top notch and excellent value for money.

[@sunraviprakash]

How do we add "Others" so that chart shows e.g. Top 5 and adds up rest into "Others"

[@chandoo_]

For that you need a separate dimension table with all products + others row. Then the logic would be same, except, for others, you want to always "show". Plus instead of visualizing the [total sales], you would make a new measure to calculate total sales for the product or add up the rest for others.

[@sunraviprakash]

@@chandoo_ Thanks very much

[@xistrik3rix]

How difficult is this to do in Excel with a data model?

[@chandoo_]

Much easier to do in Excel. You don't even need data model. TAKE(SORT(...), n) will give you a dynamic array of what you need. Just feed it to the chart and done.

[@xistrik3rix]

@@chandoo_ thank you so much!

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