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Anonymous
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Get Minimum and Maximum of Count

I have a categorical feature.

I want to get the maximum count and minimum count of categories in a column. That is, highest and and lowest counts (range).

How can I do that?

 

Here is an example:

 

Category
AAA
AAA
BBB
BBB
AAA
BBB
AAA
CCC

 

Maximum count is related to AAA which is 4

Minimum count is related to CCC which is 1.

 

I want to get 4 and 1 in two dax measures.

 

Thanks.

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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

Try these measures:

Count = COUNTROWS(Data)
Maximum count = MAXX ( VALUES(Data[Category]), [Count] )
Minimum count = MINX ( VALUES(Data[Category]), [Count] )

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Ashish Mathur
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Jihwan_Kim
Super User
Super User

Hi, @Anonymous 

Please check the below picture and the sample pbix file's link down below.

 

Picture1.png

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qcc42kg4ste44dr/Mah65.pbix?dl=0 

 

 

Min Count Category =

MINX (
GROUPBY (
ALL ( 'Table' ),
'Table'[Category],
"@maxcount", SUMX ( CURRENTGROUP (), 1 )
),
[@maxcount]
)
 
 
Max Count Category =

MAXX (
GROUPBY (
ALL ( 'Table' ),
'Table'[Category],
"@maxcount", SUMX ( CURRENTGROUP (), 1 )
),
[@maxcount]
)
 
 

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Ashish_Mathur
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Super User

Hi,

Try these measures:

Count = COUNTROWS(Data)
Maximum count = MAXX ( VALUES(Data[Category]), [Count] )
Minimum count = MINX ( VALUES(Data[Category]), [Count] )

Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
Anonymous
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So this worked for me. But I am wondering if there is a way to alter it. I have a table Activities that have a column [ActivityType]. I was able to count the max and min activies but I want it to return what that activity is. For example "email" is the max activity, how do I return that instead of the count? 

Hi,

Share data in a format that can be pasted in an MS Excel file and show the expected result. 


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
Anonymous
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Thank you very much.

I don't know why it didn't fully work with my measures and filters and data. Probably, because I had some null values in the main data. This modified version solved my problem. 

 

 

Count = COUNTA('Data'[Category])

 

 

The rest is the same.

You are welcome.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
danextian
Super User
Super User

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Try these:

MaxCount =
MAXX (
    SUMMARIZE (
        'Table',
        'Table'[Category],
        "count",
            CALCULATE (
                COUNTA ( 'Table'[Category] ),
                ALLEXCEPT ( 'Table', 'Table'[Category] )
            )
    ),
    [count]
)


MinCount =
MINX (
    SUMMARIZE (
        'Table',
        'Table'[Category],
        "count",
            CALCULATE (
                COUNTA ( 'Table'[Category] ),
                ALLEXCEPT ( 'Table', 'Table'[Category] )
            )
    ),
    [count]
)




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