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9 years ago
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How to create variance field and variance %

Hello all,     i'm beginner and just want to know how i can create the variance of column 1 and 2 and also the variance %     the numbers 1 until 5 represent columname MONTH and the produ...
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  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    You can create measures below:

     

    Variance = CALCULATE(SUM(Table1[Amount]),FILTER(Table1,'Table1'[Month]=1))-CALCULATE(SUM(Table1[Amount]),FILTER(Table1,'Table1'[Month]=2))

     

    Variance % = DIVIDE('Table1'[Variance],CALCULATE(SUM(Table1[Amount]),FILTER(ALL(Table1),'Table1'[Month]=1)))

     

     

    By the way, I would suggest you display those two measures in card visuals. As you use matrix visual to display data originally, if we add two measures to this matrix, two measures values will display under each column group, means under 1, 2,...,5, each will have three columns. It will make the matrix messy, as you just want to return variance between the 1 and 2.

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu

     

     

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v-qiuyu-msft
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9 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

You can create measures below:

 

Variance = CALCULATE(SUM(Table1[Amount]),FILTER(Table1,'Table1'[Month]=1))-CALCULATE(SUM(Table1[Amount]),FILTER(Table1,'Table1'[Month]=2))

 

Variance % = DIVIDE('Table1'[Variance],CALCULATE(SUM(Table1[Amount]),FILTER(ALL(Table1),'Table1'[Month]=1)))

 

 

By the way, I would suggest you display those two measures in card visuals. As you use matrix visual to display data originally, if we add two measures to this matrix, two measures values will display under each column group, means under 1, 2,...,5, each will have three columns. It will make the matrix messy, as you just want to return variance between the 1 and 2.

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

 

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    9 years ago

    HI v-qiuyu-msft,

     

    Thanks for your advise. But what if want to have measures which calculate the variance and variance % between month 2 and 3 or 4 and 5 ? So to have a flexible measurements?

     

     

  • TripsM's avatar
    TripsM
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    8 years ago

    How did you get the Table reference to work? I can't find table names or anything similar to that using the current PowerBI Desktop.

  • aks_jo's avatar
    aks_jo
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    2 years ago

    This saved me from a lot of tension and helped me to achieve the result what I wanted to. Thanks for this query.