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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Average Measure

Hello

 

I hope someone can help.

 

I want to create a measure to find the current average based on YTD data and that the average changes as the months go on. So as it stands I have three months of data Jan 2019 - March 2019 and a small amount of data from April. I only want to have the average of January - March and when April is finished, the numbers from April will be added to the calculation. Then May, June.....and so on. Is it a Rolling average?

 

Thanking you all in advance

Joe

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  • AlB's avatar
    AlB
    7 years ago

    Anonymous 

    See it all at work in the attached file (based on your pbix)

    I think this will get you what you are looking for (YYTD average):

    Measure3 =
VAR _LatestDataDate =
    MAX ( Actual[DATE] )
VAR _LatestMonthFinalDay =
    EOMONTH ( _LatestDataDate; 0 )
VAR _LatestDayForCalc =
    IF (
        _LatestDataDate = _LatestMonthFinalDay;
        _LatestMonthFinalDay;
        EOMONTH ( _LatestMonthFinalDay; -1 )
    )
RETURN
    IF (
        MAX ( 'DATE'[DATE] ) <= _LatestDayForCalc;
        AVERAGEX (
            ADDCOLUMNS (
                FILTER (
                    DISTINCT ( 'DATE'[Date.1].[Month] );
                    CALCULATE ( MAX ( 'DATE'[DATE] ) ) <= _LatestDayForCalc
                );
                "_Res"; [Percentage_Completed]
            );
            [_Res]
        )
    )

    I also created another measure, similar to what you already have and to be used in the charts, that returns the measure value only for the months that are complete in the data:

    Measure1 =
VAR _LatestDataDate =
    MAX ( Actual[DATE] )
VAR _LatestMonthFinalDay =
    EOMONTH ( _LatestDataDate; 0 )
VAR _LatestDayForCalc =
    IF (
        _LatestDataDate = _LatestMonthFinalDay;
        _LatestMonthFinalDay;
        EOMONTH ( _LatestMonthFinalDay; -1 )
    )
RETURN
    IF ( MAX ( 'DATE'[DATE] ) <= _LatestDayForCalc; [Percentage_Completed] )

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  • AlB's avatar
    AlB
    Community Champion
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    Please share sample data of the tables in your model if you want to get an accurate answer. With the little info you provide, I would venture the following measure in a card visual:

     

    Measure =
VAR _LatestDate =
    MAX ( Table1[Date] )
VAR _LatestMonthFinalDay =
    EOMONTH ( _LatestDate, 0 )
VAR _LatestDateForCalc =
    IF (
        _LatestDate = _LatestMonthFinalDay,
        _LatestMonthFinalDay,
        EOMONTH ( _LatestMonthFinalDay, -1 )
    )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        AVERAGE ( Table1[Field_you_want_the_average_on] ),
        FILTER ( ALL ( Table1[Date] ), Table1[Date] <= _LatestDateForCalc )
    )

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    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Hello AIB

      First thanks for the formula. I should have been clearer in my explaination.

       

      I actually need to Average the result of a Measure that I have.

       

      I have a two tables one with forecasted calls per month and another table with completed calls at various intervals.

       

      I created two measures

       

      My formula for completed calls is

           Calculate(
                        DISTINCTCOUNT(CALLS, [ID]),
                              FILTER(CALLS, [CALLSTATUSID] = "COMPLETED")

          Calculate(
                        SUMX(FORECASTEDCALLS, [CALLAMOUNT])
                              

      I then created another Measure to work out the percentage of completed calls against the forecasted result. This works fine when in a line chart. So far so good. And from this final measure, I want to create an Average.

       

      Looking at your I may need to create a table with Month and Year and then add the values from both tables?

       

      Thanks

      Joe

       

       

       

       

       

       

      • AlB's avatar
        AlB
        Community Champion
        7 years ago

        Anonymous 

        See it all at work in the attached file (based on your pbix)

        I think this will get you what you are looking for (YYTD average):

        Measure3 =
VAR _LatestDataDate =
    MAX ( Actual[DATE] )
VAR _LatestMonthFinalDay =
    EOMONTH ( _LatestDataDate; 0 )
VAR _LatestDayForCalc =
    IF (
        _LatestDataDate = _LatestMonthFinalDay;
        _LatestMonthFinalDay;
        EOMONTH ( _LatestMonthFinalDay; -1 )
    )
RETURN
    IF (
        MAX ( 'DATE'[DATE] ) <= _LatestDayForCalc;
        AVERAGEX (
            ADDCOLUMNS (
                FILTER (
                    DISTINCT ( 'DATE'[Date.1].[Month] );
                    CALCULATE ( MAX ( 'DATE'[DATE] ) ) <= _LatestDayForCalc
                );
                "_Res"; [Percentage_Completed]
            );
            [_Res]
        )
    )

        I also created another measure, similar to what you already have and to be used in the charts, that returns the measure value only for the months that are complete in the data:

        Measure1 =
VAR _LatestDataDate =
    MAX ( Actual[DATE] )
VAR _LatestMonthFinalDay =
    EOMONTH ( _LatestDataDate; 0 )
VAR _LatestDayForCalc =
    IF (
        _LatestDataDate = _LatestMonthFinalDay;
        _LatestMonthFinalDay;
        EOMONTH ( _LatestMonthFinalDay; -1 )
    )
RETURN
    IF ( MAX ( 'DATE'[DATE] ) <= _LatestDayForCalc; [Percentage_Completed] )