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Creating a Small multiples charts in Power BI

small multiples preview

Power BI December 2020 updates – Power BI has released preview version of the small multiples feature!. Now, you can create small multiples on your bar, column, line, and area charts.

Refer similar post:- Custom visual for Small multiples line chart

Nov-2022 new feature for Small multiple charts – Unshared Y-axis for small multiple charts

Prerequisite

Download Power Desktop latest version – https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/

Let’s get started-

Sample Dataset download from here- Global Super Store Dataset



Follow these steps in order to create a small multiples-

Step-1: Enable small multiples preview – click on File tab > Option & settings > Option > Preview feature > Select small multiples

Small Multiples-enable

Small Multiples-enable

Step-2: These changes required restart, so save the changes and re-open the file.

Step-3: Now let’s start with clustered column chart, add one clustered column chart into Power BI report page with some fields as mentioned below-

Clustered-column-chart

Clustered-column-chart



Step-4: Now drag “Category” column into Small multiples fields. It will split category into small multiples charts under one visual as you can see in below screen shot.

Small-multiples-visual-1

Small-multiples-visual-1

Format Small multiples

You can set the font size, font family & grid layout for small multiples chart. For this select visual & go to format bar and follow these two important properties for chart-

Small multiple title – It allows you to change the title font-family, text size, alignment, position & color for small multiples charts.

Grid layout – from here you can set the number of rows & columns for small multiples charts.

You can see in below screen shot, here we set the number of row & column are 2, so it will split your chart into a 2×2 grid.

Small multiples chart grid layout

Small multiples chart grid layout



Some example of small multiples with Power BI native visuals-

Small multiples chart example in Power BI

Small multiples chart example in Power BI

Nov-2022 new feature for Small multiple charts – Unshared Y-axis for small multiple charts

Refer other Power BI topics: Power BI Visuals

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