Some tips for your data labels in Power BI

Charts can be hard to understand sometimes. Ambiguity is never a good thing. Here are some tips for using data labels in Power BI to help your consumers better understand the meaning of the values.


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[RayHull]

I am using a stacked bar chart with multiple fields in the values area that measure the performance of all athletes in an event. I would like to have some way of indicating the athletes from my team. We are currently adding red circle shapes on top of the athlete, that works until you change the sort order

Thanks for all the great content, you guys are the first site I refer people to when getting started in power bi.

[TheShottski]

Although this tip improved the readability of the data label, the dark background paired with the label being outside the bar now gives the visual impression that the value of the second bar in the chart is taller than the first. In general, I would recommend placing the data label within the bar and avoiding this issue altogether.

[Kifter]

This just seems kinda poor... Not that I'm criticising GiaC or their advice, but if you choose for the label to appear at the top of the bar, there should be code that works out that on the largest bar, it's not going to fit, then resize the Y axis automatically so the largest bar is made shorter and then place the label above all the bars. Just working around the problem setting a background for readability doesn't fix the aesthetic issue of it looking kinda poo.

[rasonline]

The background tip is awesome!! Guaranteed contrast and easy reading! Can you also link to a video on customizing PBi themes (maybe a bit of context on how easy/difficult it is to work with themes)

[adunbar]

I always appreciate your videos and thanks. One issue I have is that I'm trying to force all my data labels to appear as Outside End without a background on a stacked column chart. It works great with Totals but when I filter on a specific category, the y-axis causes the data label to either be hidden or chopped off. There should be a way to account for the changes in the y-axis so that the data label always appears Outside End if that's the selection I chose. I haven't found a great workaround for this issue yet. Any suggestions?

[Kabirtripathy]

I regularly follow you people, loved the content 🥳😎

[AgnelJV]

Settings the Y-axis upper limit dynamically based on the max data we have among the bars should work. Then the data label will always be outside perfectly. No partial overlap happens.

[ellaosuzoka]

Q: Is there a way to edit specific data labels for each column and not all the columns at the same time?

[kavururajesh]

Would it be possible to send snap shot of a page in one email subscription with filters
Because we have used RLS there is any option that screenshot will work for filtering by using any automation programming.

[kavururajesh]

Would it be possible to send multiple report pages in one email subscription? Could you please tell me how if it is possible?

Currently I am only able to make a subscription for each report page and the emails are sent separately.

[Baldur]

Can you share the json code for changing the default color of data label?

[yumyumhotsauce]

brilliant! never thought about using contrasting background color! On the topic of readability, is there a way to enlarge the text in the coding area in powerquery?

[adesoyetomiwa]

please how do I see the theme color, acan anyone help ?