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Jayfemi
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Helper I

DAX

Hi am looking to to create a calculated column and measure looking at the amount of times a name appears and then get a count.

i.e. "derek" but the area i am struggling with is where multiple names occour in one cell i.e. " Josh Greg Jamie Susan" is there anyway to have a dax formual look into a colunm and pick out each individual occourance and count it?

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft
Microsoft


@Jayfemi wrote:

Hi am looking to to create a calculated column and measure looking at the amount of times a name appears and then get a count.

i.e. "derek" but the area i am struggling with is where multiple names occour in one cell i.e. " Josh Greg Jamie Susan" is there anyway to have a dax formual look into a colunm and pick out each individual occourance and count it?


@Jayfemi

Not in DAX, but in Power Query, you shall re-model your data by split and unpivot.

 

spilt&unpivot.gif

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft
Microsoft


@Jayfemi wrote:

Hi am looking to to create a calculated column and measure looking at the amount of times a name appears and then get a count.

i.e. "derek" but the area i am struggling with is where multiple names occour in one cell i.e. " Josh Greg Jamie Susan" is there anyway to have a dax formual look into a colunm and pick out each individual occourance and count it?


@Jayfemi

Not in DAX, but in Power Query, you shall re-model your data by split and unpivot.

 

spilt&unpivot.gif

Abduvali
Skilled Sharer
Skilled Sharer

Hi @Jayfemi,

Just drag and drop the names and do a count on them:

Capture30.PNG

 

Regards

Abduvali

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