Forum Discussion
Data Scale
Maybe the easiest solution at this point is just to multiple my measures by 1000.
The Auto function doesn't account for my data being in thousands already. While a calculated column would fix the issue I have around 100 Columns per table and about 5 tables so far. I feel that would potentially lead to errors and a lot of ram being used.
There is a function(Standard) at the top of query editor under the transform tab that will allow you to multiply columns, but it will not let me do multiple columns at a time and I don't want to manually adjust 500+ columns of data.
We need a setting in the query editor that will allow us to specify whether our data is in real numbers, thousands, or millions etc.
rfreuden25 wrote:We need a setting in the query editor that will allow us to specify whether our data is in real numbers, thousands, or millions etc.
Exactly. I feel your pain. There must be a more elegant 'scale data' solution than to 1.) create double the number of fields to do a quick calcs for every single field when the data are expressed in thousands, millions, billions, etc, or 2.) create a custom value like in excel to add the million or billion to the raw number (e.g., $0.0,,"B").
Sure, the later 'sort of' works for me, but when when the numbers decrease/increase appreciably, well, you run into the "$0.0T" issue.
So frustrating for something seemingly so common.
Did you every figure out a workaround? I was going to start yet another thread on this topic in hopes of figuring out how to address it properly.