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Anonymous
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5 years ago
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Basic stats for a given field

If accessing a database directly, as opposed to via powerbI, I could find info about a given field by running a bit of SQL - for instance:    SELECT AVG(field_name) AS averageVal FROM tableName   ...
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    v-kelly-msft
    5 years ago

    Hi  Anonymous ,

     

    Modify your measure as below:

    Measure = 
AVERAGEX(ALL('Table'),VALUE('Table'[values]))

    And you will see:

     

    For the related .pbix file,pls see attached.

     

     

    Best Regards,
    Kelly

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Ah - I think the problem is that though these values are numeric, th data source stores them as strings

Is there a way I can tell powerBI to treat these numeric strings as numbers? Unfortunately I don't think I can change the remote data source....

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v-kelly-msft
Community Support
5 years ago

Hi  Anonymous ,

 

Modify your measure as below:

Measure = 
AVERAGEX(ALL('Table'),VALUE('Table'[values]))

And you will see:

 

For the related .pbix file,pls see attached.

 

 

Best Regards,
Kelly

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