What it does.
Most of the problem usually sits in a handful of causes. The Pareto chart is the standard way to find them: bars sorted largest first, a cumulative line climbing across them, and a threshold separating the vital few worth acting on from the trivial many that are not.
Power BI can draw sorted bars and a line on a second axis, but it will not sort by value, accumulate the percentages, work out where the line crosses your threshold, or tell you how many categories that took. Those are the parts that make it a Pareto chart rather than a combo chart, and they are the parts this visual does for you.
The cut is not fixed at 80 percent. Set any threshold, and the chart marks the crossing point and states in plain words how many categories reach it. A long tail can be rolled into a single Other bar so the chart stays readable without losing the total.
Use Cases • Which defect types account for most of the scrap • Which customers or products make up most of the revenue • Which error codes drive most of the support tickets • Which cost lines to attack first in a reduction program • Which suppliers cause most of the late deliveries
What ships today, what’s next.
Available now16 capabilities
- Bars sorted largest first, with a computed cumulative percentage line
- Adjustable threshold, not fixed at 80 percent
- Cut line marking where the cumulative line crosses the threshold
- Plain-words callout of how many categories reach it
- Separate colours and labels for vital few and trivial many
- Tail grouping into a single Other bar
- Independent value and percentage axes
- Data labels: all bars, vital few only, or those that fit
- Automatic category label rotation
- Threshold line and cut line, independently formatted
- Small multiples, each sorted and cut on its own data
- Explicit handling of blanks and negatives, with an exclusions notice
- Cross-filtering, drill-down, report page tooltips, bookmarks
- Keyboard navigation and screen-reader accessibility
- High-contrast mode support
- Landing page quick-start guidance
On the roadmap1 planned
- A second cumulative series for period comparison
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