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Anonymous
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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
    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
Community Support
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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aks_jo
Frequent Visitor
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.