Converting State Abbreviations

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, 

I have a column that looks like this:

State

AL

Alabama

TN

Tennessee

AL

AL

VA 

VA

Alabama

Virgina

Tennessee

How do I create one column that has the full name for every state?

[chethan · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

Import the data from http://www.stateabbreviations.us/ via Web 

& go Edit Queries  use > Home Tab > Merge Queries  

    #"Added Conditional Column" = Table.AddColumn(#"Duplicated Column", "State", each if [state old] <> [#"state new"] then [#"State New"] else null )

Regards,

Chetan K

[trebgatte]

You could look at the length of the value. If 2, then do a look up, else, show original value. This should be pretty easy to do in DAX.

Treb Gatte | MVP | TumbleRoad.com | PowerBICertification.com

[malagari]

As @trebgatte mentioned, you'll need to have some master lookup table for the states abbreviation and full name.  Then you can create a new calculated column that checks the length, and pulls the [StateFullName], otherwise it defaults to the existing value.

[eaglesgirl77]

New to Power BI & Data:  Can you provide the formula you would use to calculate length and pull state name.  Once I see it I can make the connection to how it works.