Inspired by a post late last year of a spine chart by one of my LinkedIn connections I wanted to try and recreate it in Power BI. First I re-created it in Tableau, then tried in Power BI.
![](https://i0.wp.com/torisugden.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Spine-Chart-in-Tableau.png?resize=474%2C304)
![](https://i0.wp.com/torisugden.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Spine-Chart-in-Power-BI.png?resize=474%2C305)
It was more difficult in Power BI. One visual in Tableau became three visuals (table, stacked bar chart, scatter plot) in Power BI with a lot of tweaking:
- the table had to be unlinked from the slicer
- creating measures for the stacked bar chart (left white, left grey, left dark grey, black, right dark grey, right white)
- scatter plot on top of stacked bar chart with x-axis transparent
Even then I wasn't able to finely tune the alignment and settled on aligning the middle rows of the table and the stacked bar chart.
Previously, I posted about Power BI coming out on top in regards to the radar chart. This time Tableau came out on top for spine charts.
Score tied at 1:1