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I have a table of clients and their genders, and I need to identify the gender with the most values, so from a table like this:
Client 1 - Male
Client 2 - Male
Client 3 - Female
Client 4 - Male
Client 5 - Male
Client 6 - Male
I need to produce the word "Male" as a measure, because there are 5 males and only 1 female. I can't use visual filters to achieve this.
Using RANK, I got Male = 1 and Female = 2, but I'm not sure how to take that output and produce the word "Male".
What is wrong with my approach? Thank you!
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @Anonymous
Please try
Max Gender =
MAXX (
TOPN (
1,
SUMMARIZE ( 'Table', 'Table'[Gender], "@Count", COUNTROWS ( 'Table' ) ),
[@Count]
),
'Table'[Gender]
)
Hi @Anonymous
Please try
Max Gender =
MAXX (
TOPN (
1,
SUMMARIZE ( 'Table', 'Table'[Gender], "@Count", COUNTROWS ( 'Table' ) ),
[@Count]
),
'Table'[Gender]
)
This worked great - I was able to even add a filter on to COUNTROWS to remove blanks from consideration. Thanks so much!
Didn't try the other option, that might work as well.
Hi,
Please check the below picture and the attached pbix file.
expected result measure: =
VAR _gendertablewithcounting =
ADDCOLUMNS (
DISTINCT ( Data[Gender] ),
"@count", CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( Data ) )
)
VAR _groupbymaxcounting =
GROUPBY (
_gendertablewithcounting,
Data[Gender],
"@maxcount", MAXX ( CURRENTGROUP (), [@count] )
)
RETURN
MAXX ( _groupbymaxcounting, Data[Gender] )
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