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jgray72
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7 years ago
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How Can I Count Breaks in a Pattern?

Hi - in the below data set, I want to count the number of styles that have a break in their buying pattern.  For example, I want to know that two out of the 4 styles don't have consecutive buys.  Sty...
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  • Ashish_Mathur's avatar
    Ashish_Mathur
    7 years ago

    Hi,

     

    You may download my MS Excel file from here.  The same file can be imported into PBI desktop as well.

  • Ashish_Mathur's avatar
    Ashish_Mathur
    7 years ago

    Hi,

     

    You may download my revised PBI file from here.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

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jgray72
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7 years ago

Hi Ashir - I ran into a problem after I continued to spot check the data.  The thing I didn't account for in the sample data, is that there can be several rows of data, as multiple regions can buy.

 

I think that's why the counts aren't correct below.  I don't think it's accurately counting the purchase instances at an aggregated level.  In this example, I should get one consecutive bought style and one non-consecutive bought style.  I should have made my sample data better reflect my raw data.

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Ashish_Mathur
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7 years ago

Hi,

 

So there is nothing wrong with my solution.  If your requirements keep changing, it is quite obvious that the solution would require tweaking.  Please do not be in a hurry to just post some sample which does not reflect yoru actual dataset.  Share a well thought over dataset, describe the business question in detail and then show the expected result.