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Anonymous
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Creating a new summary table with multiple binary columns

I have some survey data I want to aggregate as in the image below.

 

Essentially, I want a column with a sum of all customers, grouped by the question and the date. I have a table where all these questions are separate columns and indicated as '0' for no and '1' for yes.

 

This will mean that I can greate graphs that use 'Question' as an axis, and count of customer as a value.

 

Normally, I would do this in the EDW layer, but I don't have permissions to do this at the moment, so I'm doing it at the PBI level.

 

I've seen a number of posts on Summarise table, but I'm finding it difficult to understand how to apply it to my situation where I have multiple binary columns.

 

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v-piga-msft
Resident Rockstar
Resident Rockstar

Hi @Anonymous,

 

The suggestion of Ashish_Mathur is meaningful, but need a little change by my test.

 

1. As Ashish_Mathur suggested, please unpivot the column Q1 to Q5.

2. Create the measure with the formula below.

 

Yes responses =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Data' ),
    ALLEXCEPT ( Data, 'Data'[Date] ),
    FILTER ( 'Data', 'Data'[Value] = 1 )
)

No responses =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Data' ),
    ALLEXCEPT ( Data, 'Data'[Date] ),
    FILTER ( 'Data', 'Data'[Value] = 0 )
)

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,

 

The suggestion of Ashish_Mathur is meaningful, but need a little change by my test.

 

1. As Ashish_Mathur suggested, please unpivot the column Q1 to Q5.

2. Create the measure with the formula below.

 

Yes responses =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Data' ),
    ALLEXCEPT ( Data, 'Data'[Date] ),
    FILTER ( 'Data', 'Data'[Value] = 1 )
)

No responses =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Data' ),
    ALLEXCEPT ( Data, 'Data'[Date] ),
    FILTER ( 'Data', 'Data'[Value] = 0 )
)

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.
Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

 

In the Query Editor, right click on the first 2 columns and select "Unpivot other columns".  Rename the Attribute columns as Question.  In a Table visual, drag the Question and Date columns.  Write these measures

 

Yes responses = CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT(Data[Customer No]),Data[Question]="Yes")

No responses = CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT(Data[Customer No]),Data[Question]="No")

 

Hope this helps.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

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