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ElliotP
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10 years ago
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Moving Average

Hi,   I've just started using PowerBI and I'm a massive fan of the tool. I've been trying to calculate a simple moving average for Months vs Sessions.   I've tried quite a lot of things, googling...
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  • v-sihou-msft's avatar
    v-sihou-msft
    10 years ago

    ElliotP

     

    Firstly you need a column of date with full date format. Then you can use calculated measure to get the expected result. Please refer to following steps.

     

    1. Create a calculated column for the date.
      FullDate =
DATE ( 2016, 'Session'[Month of the Year], 1 )
    2. Create a measure for 3 months moving average. You can change the number of months if you want.
      Moving_Average_3_Months = 
CALCULATE (
    AVERAGEX ( 'Session', 'Session'[Sessions] ),
    DATESINPERIOD (
        'Session'[FullDate],
        LASTDATE ( 'Session'[FullDate] ),
        -3,
        MONTH
    )
)
    3. Drag the Line Chart into your canvas as below.
Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago

via below logic, you can find the Trailing average of the 12 months. 

 

 

[Trailing 12 Month Average ] = DIVIDE(
CALCULATE(
SUM(Avg_sales[Sales_Count]),
DATESBETWEEN(
Avg_sales[List_Date],
FIRSTDATE(DATEADD(Avg_sales[List_Date],-12,MONTH)),
LASTDATE('Avg_sales'[List_Date])
)
),12)

 

 

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salberts
New Member
8 years ago

In my application this approach collected an extra month's worth of data. The corrected forumula which worked for me is below. I tested this with manual calculations in Excel.

 

[Trailing 12 Month Average ] = DIVIDE(
CALCULATE(
SUM(Avg_sales[Sales_Count]),
DATESBETWEEN(
Avg_sales[List_Date],
FIRSTDATE(DATEADD(Avg_sales[List_Date],-11,MONTH)),
LASTDATE('Avg_sales'[List_Date])
)
),12)