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Pillz
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6 years ago
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Find Average for another column

Hi, I'm trying to find the average of event attendees for each category. Example: average for Category 1 would be 19.5 (15+24/2) Attached is an example of the table data that I have right now. ...
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  • richbenmintz's avatar
    richbenmintz
    6 years ago

    Hi Pillz,

     

    Given your Data Model I think the following will work

     

    % By Category = 
var numerator = CALCULATE(COUNTROWS('Data'), ALLEXCEPT('Data','Data'[Category]))
var denominator =  CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(SUMMARIZE(ALLEXCEPT(Data, 'Table'[Event Category]), Data[Event], "m", COUNTROWS(Data))))
 return 
divide(numerator,denominator)

    Hope this Helps

    Richard 


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jdbuchanan71's avatar
jdbuchanan71
Super User
6 years ago

Thank you.

First, make your count into a measure:

Attendee Count = DISTINCTCOUNT ( Data[Attendee Name] )

Then you can write the average measure like so.

Avg Attendees = AVERAGEX ( VALUES ( Data[Category]), [Attendee Count] )

 

Pillz's avatar
Pillz
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

jdbuchanan71 

Seems like Avg Attendees gives me the same result as Attendee Count. I revamped my table so that the each event has a total sum of attendees rather than the count of attendees for that event.

I think it is because the way my table was setup originally that caused me some confusion