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procyon82
Resolver I
10 years ago
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Removing Outliers

Is there an easy way to remove any outliers in Power BI desktop? I am currently importing revenue from Google Analytics, but every now and then we get very large purchases that scew the averages. Co...
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  • jahida's avatar
    jahida
    10 years ago

    That reads as: In some context (CALCULATE), is the SUM > 5000?

     

    I think you want:

     

    Revenue Month  = CALCULATE(SUM('GA Ecommerce'[Revenue]), 'GA Ecommerce[Revenue] < 5000,PARALLELPERIOD('GA Ecommerce'[Date],0,MONTH))
  • v-caliao-msft's avatar
    v-caliao-msft
    10 years ago

    Hi procyon82,

     

    Now what you need is removing outliers at daily level instead of individual transactions level, right?

     

    If that is the case, you can add a new table to sum up the revenue at daily level by using SUMMRIZE function. I have tested it on my local environment, here is the sample expression for you reference.

    DailyRevene = SUMMARIZE(Daily,Daily[Date],"Daily total",SUM(Daily[Sales]))

     

    Then you can remove the outliers on daily level in this new created table.

     

    Regards,

    Charlie Liao

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v-caliao-msft
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago

Hi procyon82,

 

Now what you need is removing outliers at daily level instead of individual transactions level, right?

 

If that is the case, you can add a new table to sum up the revenue at daily level by using SUMMRIZE function. I have tested it on my local environment, here is the sample expression for you reference.

DailyRevene = SUMMARIZE(Daily,Daily[Date],"Daily total",SUM(Daily[Sales]))

 

Then you can remove the outliers on daily level in this new created table.

 

Regards,

Charlie Liao

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procyon82
Resolver I
9 years ago

No, I wasn't looking for outliers by looking at daily totals. I was looking for individual transactions that would skew my averages.