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Data modelling challenge?
Hi all!
I want to produce a report with a chart/charts comparing revenue by year and month.
The data I have is in the form as below. (It also contains columns for Cost of Goods, Qty Sold and Qty Purchased in the same format as revenue which I have excluded here for brevity.)
Each product has 1 row per year, Rev01-Rev12 are January to December.
| Year | Product | RevTotal | Rev01 | Rev02 | Rev03 | Rev04 | Rev05 | Rev06 | Rev07 | Rev08 | Rev09 | Rev10 | Rev11 | Rev12 |
| 2020 | AB1 | 5300,00 | 750,00 | 250,00 | 500,00 | 500,00 | 300,00 | 200,00 | 100,00 | 400,00 | 600,00 | 700,00 | 1000,00 |
I would have prefered having Year, Month, Product, Revenue as the columns, that would have made it easier to my mind (I'm no expert!)
Could someone suggest either:
1. A method to use the data in the current form
or
2. If it does need to be changed to Year, Month, Product, Revenue as the columns, how I should best go about that?
A pointer to a resource where I could learn would also be much appreciated.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
Regards.. Nick
Hi NickOnTheNet
first you have to unpivot the data columns Rev01 - Rev12 in Power Query.
Please provide some more sample data.
With kind regards from the town where the legend of the 'Pied Piper of Hamelin' is at home
FrankAT (Proud to be a Datanaut)
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- FrankATCommunity Champion
Hi NickOnTheNet
first you have to unpivot the data columns Rev01 - Rev12 in Power Query.
Please provide some more sample data.
With kind regards from the town where the legend of the 'Pied Piper of Hamelin' is at home
FrankAT (Proud to be a Datanaut)- NickOnTheNetFrequent Visitor
Hi FrankAT ,
Thanks for your input!
I just looked through YouTube and found a number of videos covering the subject, I just needed to know what to look for.
This one covered it perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Ekr_sLP-0
I think I've got it from here.
Every day's a school day 😀
Kind regards ... Nick