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evalromf
Helper I
9 years ago

Data aggregation - not rolling

Hi,

 

I am creating a report with data that spans one year. However, the data comes in with 6 values per day. The data is fluctuacting much, so the grahps get almost unreadable.

 

I can display monthly data, as I have two columns coming in (using three different SQL-questions when retrieving data from a database, aggregated by hour / day / month). However, monthly data is not useful in all tables, as it is too aggreated.

 

I have added the week of the month and grouped the data using this column - but the, it's the week of the year that gets displayed in the X-axis (and that is not really user-friendly).

 

It does not necessarily have to be per-week, just aggregated a bit more. 5 days together would be sufficient as well. I'd not like to have a rolling average, but an average over a number of of days that is somewhere between hourly and monthly.

 

Is there someone that has a solution for this? It would be really appreciated.

 

//Eva-Lotta

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Hi evalromf

     

    PLease post some sample data and the exact output expected.

     

    Cheers

     

    CheenuSing

    • evalromf's avatar
      evalromf
      Helper I
      9 years ago

      Hi,

       

      As you can see in the picture below, the graps are very difficult to interpret:

       

       

      The source data (dummy values) looks like this:

       

       

       

      When taking the monthly averages, it looks something like this (not the same data, just an example):

       

       

      This data is taken from a file that is structured the same way, but it contains data per-month.

       

      So what I'd like to have, is something in between. Would that be possible? I'd like to avoid formatting / aggregating the data too much before loading it into Power BI.

       

      //Eva-Lotta