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MartynasBI
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3 years ago

Calculating average based on a text column

Hi, I have a following sample of the data set. I would like to be able to calculate the average based on a text column (please refer to the “Update” column).   From this data there are 6 tot...
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Kishore_KVN
Solution Sage
3 years ago

Hello MartynasBI 

You can use count and distinct count combination to achieve this. 

DAX looks a below:

Average = 
Var A = COUNT('Counting Weeks Data'[Update])
Var B = DISTINCTCOUNT('Counting Weeks Data'[Week])
Return
DIVIDE(A,B,BLANK())

 

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MartynasBI
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Hi Kishore_KVN ,

 

Unfortunately it did not work. Apologies, my provided data might not have been fully representative of what I am working with. Please find the below data set example

 

The goal remains the same - to calculate the average updates per week.

 

Thanks

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    Kishore_KVN
    Solution Sage
    3 years ago

    Can you please share the expected output as well!!!