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afos111
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3 years ago
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Average thinking no data is zero

Hello all,   Below is shown a matrix of 5 different matrixes "PLANT FPY" is an average of the first four. the blanks shown have zero data as no product was ran in the area thus resulting in zero d...
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    v-yueyunzh-msft
    3 years ago

    Hi , afos111 

    Here are the steps you can refer to :

    (1)This is my test data , i put three measures in the visual :

    (2)We can create a measure :

    Measure 5 = var _count =IF( [Measure 2] <> BLANK() ,1 ,0)+IF( [Measure 3] <> BLANK() ,1 ,0)+IF( [Measure 4] <> BLANK() ,1 ,0)
return 
DIVIDE( [Measure 2]+[Measure 3]+[Measure 4] , _count)

    (3)Then we can ignore the BLANK() data to calculate the average of the three measures:

     

    Best Regards,

    Aniya Zhang

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v-yueyunzh-msft
Community Support
3 years ago

Hi , afos111 

Here are the steps you can refer to :

(1)This is my test data , i put three measures in the visual :

(2)We can create a measure :

Measure 5 = var _count =IF( [Measure 2] <> BLANK() ,1 ,0)+IF( [Measure 3] <> BLANK() ,1 ,0)+IF( [Measure 4] <> BLANK() ,1 ,0)
return 
DIVIDE( [Measure 2]+[Measure 3]+[Measure 4] , _count)

(3)Then we can ignore the BLANK() data to calculate the average of the three measures:

 

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly

 

 

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afos111
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3 years ago

thank you! this worked great, ill definetly be using this in the future.