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aabati68
2 years agoFrequent Visitor
Data challenge (probably DAX)
I am geeting data in PowerBI from an Excel file where I have 3 columns I want to get to this result, where I have list of unique fruit name and overall count: Many thanks for your he...
- 2 years ago
Hi aabati68 ,
If you want a more complicated approach, you can try the first code below 🙂
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WciwoyElV0lFyzkgtKspMLQYyAzLzUhPBwrE6WBU4wiWdEvOAECTmnJOam5pXAtSKaQRWs3WU0EwAi8QCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Shop1 = _t, Shop2 = _t, Shop3 = _t]), Custom1 = let PrevStep = Source, ColumnNames = Table.ColumnNames(PrevStep), Result = List.Combine( List.Transform(ColumnNames, (x) => let t = Table.SelectColumns(PrevStep, {x}), ColumnList = Table.ToList(t), RemoveEmpty = List.Select ( ColumnList, each _ <> null and _ <> "" ) in RemoveEmpty ) ), ShopTable = Table.FromList(Result, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), {"Shop"}) in ShopTable, #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Custom1,{{"Shop", type text}}) in #"Changed Type"But this second one is much simpler and easier to understand. You just need to an index column or any other helper column. Select that column and unpivot all others. Remove the helper and Attribute columns, filter out the empty rows, change the data type and rename if necessary.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WciwoyElV0lFyzkgtKspMLQYyAzLzUhPBwrE6WBU4wiWdEvOAECTmnJOam5pXAtSKaQRWs3WU0EwAi8QCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Shop1 = _t, Shop2 = _t, Shop3 = _t]), #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(Source, "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type), #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Added Index", {"Index"}, "Attribute", "Value"), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Unpivoted Other Columns",{"Attribute", "Index"}), #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Columns", each [Value] <> null and [Value] <> "") in #"Filtered Rows"
HotChilli
2 years agoCommunity Champion
The original data format is not optimal. I think you should Unpivot all columns in Power Query, so that you get
columns : shop, fruit
That will make it easier to get the final table visual (which would be fruit, count of fruit in a table)