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Anonymous
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Countif a column cell matches another column cell

Hello!

 

We want to see how well we predicted boat purchases compared to actual purchases.

 

As long as the "Actual Boat Purchased" Column contains what is in the "Boat we predicted a customer would buy" column, it should count as a match (it should not be an exact match, just a contains).

 

In the example below, we would have a success prediction rate of 2 out of 7 (28%) because the "Actual Boat Purchased" column contains "Bassmaster 8" 2 times (which is what we purchased). 

 

How could I create a measure that tells us the "Success Prediction Rate"

 

Example file

 

Here we see that we predicted 2 out of 7 correctlyHere we see that we predicted 2 out of 7 correctly

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v-piga-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

For your requirement, we could create a calculated column and a measure to achieve that.

tag =
IF (
    FIND (
        'Sales'[Boat we predicted a customer would buy],
        'Sales'[Actual Boat Purchased],
        1,
        0
    ),
    1,
    0
)
measure =
VAR a =
    CALCULATE (
        COUNT ( 'Sales'[tag] ),
        FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ( 'Sales' ), 'Sales'[tag] = 1 )
    )
VAR b =
    CALCULATE (
        COUNTROWS ( 'Sales' ),
        ALLSELECTED ( 'Sales'[Boat we predicted a customer would buy] )
    )
RETURN
    DIVIDE ( a, b )

Here is the output.

 

Capture.PNG

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
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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v-piga-msft
Resident Rockstar
Resident Rockstar

Hi @Anonymous ,

For your requirement, we could create a calculated column and a measure to achieve that.

tag =
IF (
    FIND (
        'Sales'[Boat we predicted a customer would buy],
        'Sales'[Actual Boat Purchased],
        1,
        0
    ),
    1,
    0
)
measure =
VAR a =
    CALCULATE (
        COUNT ( 'Sales'[tag] ),
        FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ( 'Sales' ), 'Sales'[tag] = 1 )
    )
VAR b =
    CALCULATE (
        COUNTROWS ( 'Sales' ),
        ALLSELECTED ( 'Sales'[Boat we predicted a customer would buy] )
    )
RETURN
    DIVIDE ( a, b )

Here is the output.

 

Capture.PNG

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
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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