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stribor45
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Post Prodigy

Best way to show data after some event takes place

I was hoping to have some advice on what is best way to show following data.

 

  • I have users who may have one parking ticket or more. Each user have unique ID and each ticket has unique ID
  • All of these tickets are currently not paid
  • I am going to send each of them an email

I want to show list of users who paid the ticket after the email is sent. My goal is to analyze and see if sending email enticed users to pay or not.

 

Thanks

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DataNinja777
Super User
Super User

Hi @stribor45 ,

 

To effectively analyze whether sending emails influenced users to pay their out

standing parking tickets, you can structure your dataset to track payments before and after the email was sent. A comparison table that shows each user's payment status change over time is the best way to present this.

Here's a sample table structure to visualize the data:

 

User ID Ticket ID Email Sent Date Payment Date Paid After Email?
101 T001 1/1/2025 1/3/2025 Yes
102 T002 1/1/2025 - No
103 T003 1/1/2025 1/5/2025 Yes
104 T004 1/1/2025 12/29/2024 No (Paid Before)

 

Key Insights are as follows:

  1. "Paid After Email?" is a calculated field that shows whether a payment occurred after the email date. You can flag users who paid post-email to assess the effectiveness.
  2. Use a DAX measure in Power BI to count the percentage of users who paid after receiving the email, enabling you to track trends and measure impact.

For example:

Paid After Email % = 
DIVIDE(
    COUNTROWS(FILTER(Payments, Payments[Paid After Email?] = "Yes")),
    COUNTROWS(Payments),
    0
)

 

This table makes it easy to see which users responded to the email and provides a clear, actionable metric for assessing your communication strategy's success.

 

Best regards,

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DataNinja777
Super User
Super User

Hi @stribor45 ,

 

To effectively analyze whether sending emails influenced users to pay their out

standing parking tickets, you can structure your dataset to track payments before and after the email was sent. A comparison table that shows each user's payment status change over time is the best way to present this.

Here's a sample table structure to visualize the data:

 

User ID Ticket ID Email Sent Date Payment Date Paid After Email?
101 T001 1/1/2025 1/3/2025 Yes
102 T002 1/1/2025 - No
103 T003 1/1/2025 1/5/2025 Yes
104 T004 1/1/2025 12/29/2024 No (Paid Before)

 

Key Insights are as follows:

  1. "Paid After Email?" is a calculated field that shows whether a payment occurred after the email date. You can flag users who paid post-email to assess the effectiveness.
  2. Use a DAX measure in Power BI to count the percentage of users who paid after receiving the email, enabling you to track trends and measure impact.

For example:

Paid After Email % = 
DIVIDE(
    COUNTROWS(FILTER(Payments, Payments[Paid After Email?] = "Yes")),
    COUNTROWS(Payments),
    0
)

 

This table makes it easy to see which users responded to the email and provides a clear, actionable metric for assessing your communication strategy's success.

 

Best regards,

Thank you. I will try this and let you know.

danextian
Super User
Super User

Hi @stribor45 

 

When it comes to things like this when I am unsure how data are to be visualized, I ask AI for guides.

Here's what I got form ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/share/677a0546-ddb0-8000-b15f-84512099e282

danextian_0-1736050056983.png

 

 





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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

Share some data to work with and show the expected result.  Share data in a format that can be pasted in an MS Excel file.


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