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SecretChimpanze
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Calculating weekly churn volume against monthly base volume

Hi - I have two tables that have been appended: Churn with volumes in week and month fields and Base with data only in the month field (week field is all blank). Reason is I need 2 years of data and the base is too big to bring in at a weekly level.

 

I need to calculate a churn rate: weekly churn / that month's base (or closest month as some weeks will be across two months)

 

This is what the data currently looks like

 

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BeaBF
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@SecretChimpanze Hi! Create a separate Base Table and call it BaseReference.

Then create a relationship between your combined table and BaseReference through trde_mth.

 

Create a Churn Rate Measure like:

Churn Rate (%) =
DIVIDE(
SUM(Combined[Churn Vol]),
RELATED(BaseReference[Opening Base])
)

 

BBF


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FBergamaschi
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Keep the two tables separated (I call then Churn Monthly Data and Churn Weekly Data just as an example)

 

Create a calendar calculate table

 

Cal = CALENDARAUTO()

 

Connect the Calendar Date column to the trade_month column of both tables

 

Create two measures

 

WeeklyChurn = SUM ( 'Churn Weekly Data'[ChurnVol] )
Monthly Churn =
VAR VisibleDate = MAX ( Cal[Date] )
VAR MonthVisibleDate = DATE ( YEAR ( VisibleDate ), MONTH( VisibleDate ), 1 )
VAR WeekChurn = [WeeklyChurn]
RETURN
IF (
     [WeeklyChurn] <>0,
    CALCULATE(
             SUM('Churn Monthly Data'[Churn]),
             REMOVEFILTERS( ),
             Cal[Date] = MonthVisibleDate )
)

 

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Francesco Bergamaschi

MBA, M.Eng, M.Econ, Professor of BI

 

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FBergamaschi
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Keep the two tables separated (I call then Churn Monthly Data and Churn Weekly Data just as an example)

 

Create a calendar calculate table

 

Cal = CALENDARAUTO()

 

Connect the Calendar Date column to the trade_month column of both tables

 

Create two measures

 

WeeklyChurn = SUM ( 'Churn Weekly Data'[ChurnVol] )
Monthly Churn =
VAR VisibleDate = MAX ( Cal[Date] )
VAR MonthVisibleDate = DATE ( YEAR ( VisibleDate ), MONTH( VisibleDate ), 1 )
VAR WeekChurn = [WeeklyChurn]
RETURN
IF (
     [WeeklyChurn] <>0,
    CALCULATE(
             SUM('Churn Monthly Data'[Churn]),
             REMOVEFILTERS( ),
             Cal[Date] = MonthVisibleDate )
)

 

FBergamaschi_0-1752570825061.png

If this helped, please consider giving kudos and mark as a solution

@me in replies or I'll lose your thread

consider voting this Power BI idea

Francesco Bergamaschi

MBA, M.Eng, M.Econ, Professor of BI

 

Thank you so much, this worked!

BeaBF
Super User
Super User

@SecretChimpanze Hi! Create a separate Base Table and call it BaseReference.

Then create a relationship between your combined table and BaseReference through trde_mth.

 

Create a Churn Rate Measure like:

Churn Rate (%) =
DIVIDE(
SUM(Combined[Churn Vol]),
RELATED(BaseReference[Opening Base])
)

 

BBF


💡 Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution!

👍 Kudos are appreciated

🔥 Proud to be a Super User!

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Great solution, thank you!

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