BumpChart by iFour

The Bump Chart custom visual for Power BI provides an engaging method to visualize shifts in rankings or positions over time. It is particularly effective for illustrating how entities such as products, teams, or individuals experience changes in their ranks. visual tool highlights relative changes and patterns among various categories, delivering insightful perspectives on performance dynamics. Users can extensively customize the visual, including options for modifying the X-axis, Y-axis, Legend, Line, Marker and Gridlines.

Key feature

• X-axis setting-: The X-axis plays a crucial role in data visualization, and this feature offers extensive customization options. users can modify the font size, font family, and font color to enhance readability.


• Y-axis setting-: Users can personalize the Y-axis settings based on their data representation needs,font adjustments for axis labels are available.


• Legend setting-: The legend is essential for understanding the different data series in a chart,with this feature, users can modify the text appearance.


• Line setting-: Users can fine-tune the appearance of lines in the visual, includes modifying the line thickness, changing colors dynamically based on data values, and selecting different line styles (solid, dashed, dotted) to distinguish trends effectively.


• Marker setting-: Markers help highlight specific data points in bump charts,users can select marker shapes choose from circles, squares, triangles, and more. Modify marker size Increase or decrease marker size for better emphasis. change marker colors apply custom colors to differentiate between data series.


• Datalabel-: Enabling data labels provides a direct view of values on the chart and allows users to toggle data labels on and off, customize font styles.


• Gridlines-: Gridlines act as reference guides in a chart. Users can enable or disable gridlines choose whether to display them. adjust gridline thickness make gridlines more prominent or subtle. customize gridline color change to match the chart’s overall theme. apply dashed or solid styles differentiate major and minor gridlines.

Business use cases

• Market share analysis-: Company wants to analyze the market positions of key competitors over the past five years. By leveraging a bump chart, the company can track how its ranking fluctuates against competitors, allowing for strategic decision-making to strengthen its market presence.


• Employee performance tracking-: A company uses a bump chart to visualize the rankings of employees based on performance metrics over time. This helps HR managers identify consistent top performers and those who need development support.


• Product sales trends-: A retail business tracks the ranking of various products in terms of sales volume over the last 12 months. The bump chart helps identify which products are gaining popularity and which ones are declining.


• Website traffic sources-: Marketing teams analyze the ranking of different traffic sources (organic, paid ads, social media, referrals) over time to optimize digital marketing strategies based on the most effective channels.


• Sports team rankings-: Sports analysts track the rankings of different teams throughout a season, using a bump chart to visualize changes in performance and strategize accordingly.