Event Table Viewer Power BI Visual

Custom Visual for Power BI displaying event data in an extended version of LineUp.js. The extended version including the event column is avaiable here as a fork of LineUp.

Key Features

• Data Table
  • displaying categorical, numerical, or temporal data in LineUp.js
• Custom event data column
  • Show events for each data row on a shared time scale
  • Interactive time scale: Zoom and drag functionality
  • Event types legend
  • Box plot: Visualize the spread of a future event based on similar observed data
  • Events in LineUp overview mode: tiny rectangles provide a compact view of events
  • Event reference column for comparing events that occured at different points in time
  • Heatmap summary visualization to compare distribution of events
  • Tooltips showing exact time scale values of events and box plot
  • Settings for event column
    • Sorting by events and box plot values
    • Event colors
    • Toggle which events and box plot values are displayed in normal and overview mode
    • Setting reference events for time scale and box plot
• Filtering other visuals based on similar data IDs of selected rows
• Filtering other visuals based on selected row ID
• Save button for keeping LineUp state (filters, sorting, column order, ...) between Power BI reloads
• Power BI Settings
  • Filter Settings (Table and column ID to be filtered)
  • Event Settings
    • Event scale units
      • year, month, week, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond
      • custom unit defined in milliseconds
    • Minimum and maximum of event scale
      • Only used when the data exceeds that range
    • Heatmap bin count for event overview
  • General Settings
    • LineUp aggregation strategy
      • group (shows group summary only)
      • item (shows items only)
      • groupItem (shows group summary and items)
      • groupTopItem (shows group and top N items, items can be expanded to show all items)
      • groupItemTop (shows group and all items, items can be collapsed to show top N items)
    • Custom numeric column range mappings
      • default is to use the minimum and maximum values of each column as range
      • specified in JSON format: {"ColumnName":[min,max]}
  • Zooming settings
    • Adapts the visual zoom such that the columns fit the available space
    • Can be disabled
    • Minimum and maximum zoom scale