DAX Calculated Column to identify price deviation

[DIACHROMA]

Hello everyone,

I need help identifying price deviations in my sales table.

In fact I would like to find a way to determine if a sale has been the subject of a promotion or on the contrary if the sale price is higher than usual.

Here is an example of what I would like to see:

Product	Retail Price	PROMO / OVERPRICE
A	10
A	10
A	10
A	10
A	5	PROMO
A	5	PROMO
B	20
B	20
B	25	OVERPRICE
B	20
B	20
B	10	PROMO
B	10	PROMO

I need this to be done in a calculated column to be able to use the "Promo / Overprice" column in a slicer.

I thought about creating a formula that identifies the most redundant price for each product and comparing the sales prices against that price.

But I have no idea of the syntax of my measurement to bring out the price that comes up most often by product.

Someone can help me ? Thanks in advance !!!

Pauline

[Anonymous]

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[AlexisOlson · Accepted solution]

The mode is the most frequently occurring value and DAX Patterns gives this general approach:

Mode :=
MINX (
    TOPN (
        1,
        ADDCOLUMNS (
            VALUES ( Data[Value] ),
            "Frequency", CALCULATE ( COUNT ( Data[Value] ) )
        ),
        [Frequency],
        0
    ),
    Data[Value]
)

This prior post gives further examples of how to apply this:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Calculating-mode-of-a-measure/m-p/83116

Since you don't want the mode over the whole table (just the current product), you'll have to do a bit of additional filtering:

PROMO / OVERPRICE :=
VAR CurrProduct = Sales[Product]
VAR FreqTable =
    GROUPBY (
        FILTER ( Sales, Sales[Product] = CurrProduct ),
        Sales[Retail Price],
        "Frequency", SUMX ( CURRENTGROUP (), 1 )
    )
VAR Mode =
    MINX ( TOPN ( 1, FreqTable, [Frequency] ), Sales[Retail Price] )
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        TRUE (),
        Sales[Retail Price] < Mode, "PROMO",
        Sales[Retail Price] > Mode, "OVERPRICE"
    )

[DIACHROMA]

Thank you very much @AlexisOlson , I just tested your formula and it works perfectly to meet my needs 🙂