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hobosapien
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1 year ago
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Keeping max values when grouping in Power Query

In the screenshot below I have multiples of the same Genre and the counts for each artist in that Genre. How do I only keep the max value count for each artist/genre combo?        
  • PhilipTreacy's avatar
    1 year ago

    hobosapien 

     

    When you group by Genre and Artist name, select the Max aggregation in the Operation drop down

     

     

     

    Regards

     

    Phil

     

  • Kedar_Pande's avatar
    1 year ago

    In Power BI, go to the "Transform Data" option to open Power Query Editor.

    Go to the "Home" tab and click on "Group By".

    In the Group By window:

    • In the Group By section, select "Genre" and "artist_name".
    • In the New column name section, name it something like Max Count.
    • In the Operation dropdown, select Max and choose the Count column.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Hi hobosapien ,

     

    Thanks for Kedar_Pande and PhilipTreacy reply.

     

    hobosapien Here is another method for your reference if you want to add a column that calculates the maximum value of each category.

    = Table.AddColumn(#"Last step", "MAX", (x)=>List.Max(Table.SelectRows(#"Last step", (y)=>y[Genre]=x[Genre] )[Count]) 
    )

    The result of my test.

     

     

     

     

     

    Best regards,

    Mengmeng Li