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Hey ihave the following data
| First Name | last name | degree | payment | ID | |
| jack | Eden | Eden exapmle.com | bachelor | 250$ | 2160003021 |
| lora | Teigen | Teigen example.com | bachelor | 340 | 3160003021 |
| jack | Edin | Eden1exapmle.com | bachelor | 600$ | 5160003021 |
| jack | Eden | Eden1exapmle.com | bachelor | 500$ | 5160003021 |
how can i assign uniqe ID to the most frequent first name
because i have a lot of misspelled names and i want to unifiedthem
i wrote the following dax column but it i do not know how to add the most frequent first name part
name unique =
VAR same_names =
CALCULATETABLE (
SUMMARIZE ( 'Table1 (2)', 'Table1 (2)'[ID], 'Table1 (2)'[First Name] ),
ALLEXCEPT ( 'Table1 (2)', 'Table1 (2)'[First Name] )
)
VAR ranking = RANKX ( same_names, 'Table1 (2)'[ID],, ASC, DENSE )
VAR blanks = REPT ( UNICHAR ( 8204 ), ranking - 1 )
VAR res = 'Table1 (2)'[First Name] & blanks
RETURN
res
Please HELP and THANK YOU
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Hi @mina97
Please try
Most Frequent First Name =
VAR SameFirstNameTable =
SUMMARIZE (
CALCULATETABLE ( 'Table1 (2)', ALLEXCEPT ( 'Table1 (2)', 'Table1 (2)'[ID] ) ),
'Table1 (2)'[First Name],
"@Count", COUNTROWS ( 'Table1 (2)' )
)
VAR MostFrequentFirstNameTable =
TOPN ( 1, SameFirstNameTable, [@Count] )
VAR MostFrequentFirstName =
MAXX ( MostFrequentFirstNameTable, 'Table1 (2)'[First Name] )
RETURN
MostFrequentFirstName
Hi @mina97
Please try
Most Frequent First Name =
VAR SameFirstNameTable =
SUMMARIZE (
CALCULATETABLE ( 'Table1 (2)', ALLEXCEPT ( 'Table1 (2)', 'Table1 (2)'[ID] ) ),
'Table1 (2)'[First Name],
"@Count", COUNTROWS ( 'Table1 (2)' )
)
VAR MostFrequentFirstNameTable =
TOPN ( 1, SameFirstNameTable, [@Count] )
VAR MostFrequentFirstName =
MAXX ( MostFrequentFirstNameTable, 'Table1 (2)'[First Name] )
RETURN
MostFrequentFirstName
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