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Dedupe ID - Keep most recent record

I have a list of Visitor IDs to a website for a specific timespan.  For purposes of summarizing the data, I would like to dedeupe the IDs in the list, keep only the timestamp of the most recent visit.

 

The Visitor ID is a column created from a concatenation DAX statement.

 

Is there a preferred way of doing this?

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  • Vvelarde's avatar
    Vvelarde
    8 years ago

    Anonymous

     

    (DAX(SUMMARIZECOLUMNS(analytics_clickstream_201802[visid_comb);"LastDate":MAX(analytics_clickstream_201802[date_time]))

    )).

     

    Replace : with ; 

     

    If you have problems with ; replace it with , (This is for regional settings)

     

    Regards

    Victor

     

     

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    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      8 years ago

      Ashish_Mathur

       

      The link below containas a sample data .xslx (Two tabs, Raw Data and Desired State)

       

      Simply put, I have one column of Visitor IDs, and the other a timestamp.  If for example I look over the course of a year, I may see repeated Visitor IDs (i.e. the individual has visited the site multiple times over the last year) however the adjacent column is timestamped.

       

      I would like to dedupe the Visitor ID column (Column A) so the data is distilled down to a single instance, showing the latest (newest) timestamp.

       

      https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wdubhk9kj8kalq/Dedupe%20Sample%20Data.xlsx?dl=0

       

      Thanks for your help!

       

       

      • Vvelarde's avatar
        Vvelarde
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        8 years ago

        Anonymous

         

        Hi, you can create a New Table (Modeling - New Table)

         

         

        NewTable =
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS (
    'Sample Data'[Visitor ID];
    "LASTDATE"; MAX ( 'Sample Data'[Date] )
)

        Regards

        VIctor