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johankent30
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Power Query Column Average

I am trying to calculate the average of a column in power query. The column does have some null values but I've tried replacing them and I still can't get List.Average() to work.. I am getting the error message that it can't convert the value to a list. Any thoughts on how to do this in M? Picture is attached belowerr.JPG

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OwenAuger
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Hi @johankent30 

I take it you want the same average value in every row of the new colum.

 

The code for the Added Custom step should be

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each List.Average(#"Changed Type"[CashFlow_Cust.Due_Days]))

Is that what you are seeing in the formula bar?

 

It's working in a test query I created similar to yours, with a mixture of numbers and nulls.

 

Regards,

Owen


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OwenAuger
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Hi @johankent30 

I take it you want the same average value in every row of the new colum.

 

The code for the Added Custom step should be

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each List.Average(#"Changed Type"[CashFlow_Cust.Due_Days]))

Is that what you are seeing in the formula bar?

 

It's working in a test query I created similar to yours, with a mixture of numbers and nulls.

 

Regards,

Owen


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Hi,

I am a newbie to PowerQuery, the above solution is very good. However, I have a little more complex query on this.

Suppose I have Country column, Value column. Now I wanted to average the Value column not equal to 0, for each country in the country column.  Kindly see the below example.

anvikuttu_0-1600515234584.png

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

 

Thank you...

Vj

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