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rlongden
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How to calculate sessions per day

I'm trying to calculate the number of sessions in my data. Sessions = a unique combination of Day + Cluster + User.

 

My data resembles this:

DateClusterUser
Nov 1111AAA
Nov 2222AAA
Nov 2333BBB
Nov 2333BBB
Nov 3444CCC
Nov 3333AAA

 

In the above example, I want a calculation that results in this:

  • Nov 1 = 1 session
  • Nov 2 = 2 sessions
    • There are 3 rows however 2 of the rows have the same cluster+user so they only count once
  • Nov 3 = 2 sessions

Ultimately, I want to know how many sessions per day, which I'd show in a table or chart.

 

Any help is appreciated.

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danextian
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Hi @rlongden ,

 

You may create a calculated column to concatenate those fields if you have other fields in your table:

 

UniqueID =
Table[Date] & Table[Cluster] & Table[User]

 

 

Then create a measure to count the distinct values:

 

Unique Count =
DISTINCTCOUNT ( Table[UniqueID] )

 

 

 

 





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danextian
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Super User

Hi @rlongden ,

 

You may create a calculated column to concatenate those fields if you have other fields in your table:

 

UniqueID =
Table[Date] & Table[Cluster] & Table[User]

 

 

Then create a measure to count the distinct values:

 

Unique Count =
DISTINCTCOUNT ( Table[UniqueID] )

 

 

 

 





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Thanks to both of you. This gives me what I need. To danextian, you guessed right that my actual data has some other columns that I didn't want in the calculation. I was able to use your example to get it working.

Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

Drag Date to the Table visual.  This measure works

Measure = COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(Data))

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