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AaronGlenn10
Helper III
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Creating Regions from a Group of Cities

I'm trying to create regions from a group of cities - for example, the Dallas-Fort Worth region is comprised of ~200 cities.  What is the best approach to accomplish?

 

Thank you so much!

 

~AGS

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mahoneypat
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You could bring in a table with city and state columns and merge that into your data.  Or you could make a Groups column yourself.

Use grouping and binning in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

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Pat





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Anonymous
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Hi @AaronGlenn10 ,

 

If you already have a group column, you could use ALLEXCEPT() function to get the average for each group.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/allexcept-function-dax 

For example:

average = calculate(average('table'[value]),allexcept('table'[group]))

 

Best Regards,

Jay

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Anonymous
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Hi @AaronGlenn10 ,

 

If you already have a group column, you could use ALLEXCEPT() function to get the average for each group.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/allexcept-function-dax 

For example:

average = calculate(average('table'[value]),allexcept('table'[group]))

 

Best Regards,

Jay

mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

You could bring in a table with city and state columns and merge that into your data.  Or you could make a Groups column yourself.

Use grouping and binning in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

Regards,

Pat





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I've created a group but it doesn't work when I try to use as a visualization filter.

vanessafvg
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what will your group be based on?   State?  county?  





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I'm only focused on one state - Texas.  The regions [groups] will be based on cities.  Need to create four regions - DFW, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston.  The DFW region [group], for example, will have 200 cities.

 

Does that help?

as per @mahoneypat  I would go with the grouing option.





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How would I calculate an average across this group:

 

Same Store TTM Delta % for ABILENE & ACTON & ADKINS & ALAMO & ALAMO HEIGHTS & ALBA =

CALCULATE(

    [Same Store TTM Delta %],

    'TABC'[location_city (groups) 2]

        IN { "ABILENE & ACTON & ADKINS & ALAMO & ALAMO HEIGHTS & ALBA" }

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