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bigrods
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5 years ago
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Subtract previous Column total from current row per ID

Hi everyone, I have searched for an answer to this, but have got stuck in a muddle with DAX so hoping someone could please put me out of my misery!

 

I have a dataset where I need to calculate the progress of students from lesson 1 to lesson 2.

 

Student is scored at Lesson 1 then scored again at Lesson 2.

I need to subtract the lesson 1 score from the lesson 2 score to get the Progress value for each Student ID.

Not all students will have a lesson 2 entry (as their lesson 2 may not have taken place yet) - the Progress should only be calculated at Lesson 2.

 

I was trying to do this under a calculated column, but not sure if a measure would be better? An example of my data is below, I have created a student_lesson column which is the Student ID and Lesson ID concatenated then made an index column based on this, as assessments could be entered in any order so didn't want to make an index based on this.

The Progress column is what I want it to look like (unless a measure is better?)

 

Assessment IDStudent IDLesson NoScoreStudent_lessonIndexProgress
11120111 
351210012280
42130213 
23229022460
653140315 
64110416 
84210042790

 

I have entered (the latest version of!) my code but have tried all sorts including using the EARLIER function but just can't get the syntax right.

 

Progress = 
var index = tbl_Assessment[index]
var students = tbl_Assessment[Student_ID]
var prevrow =
CALCULATE(
    SUMX(tbl_Assessment,tbl_Assessment[Score](
    FILTER(tbl_Assessment,
    tbl_Assessment[index]<index && tbl_Assessment[Student_ID] = students))))
return
CALCULATE(SUMx(tbl_Assessment,tbl_Assessment[Score]),FILTER(tbl_Assessment,tbl_Assessment[Lesson_No]=2)-prevrow)

 

 Many thanks for any help!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi bigrods ,

     

    Try this calculated column

    Process =
IF (
    [Lesson No] = 2,
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( tbl_Assessment[Score] ),
        FILTER (
            ALLEXCEPT ( 'tbl_Assessment', tbl_Assessment[Student ID] ),
            [Lesson No] = 2
        )
    )
        - CALCULATE (
            SUM ( tbl_Assessment[Score] ),
            FILTER (
                ALLEXCEPT ( 'tbl_Assessment', tbl_Assessment[Student ID] ),
                [Lesson No] = 1
            )
        )
)

     

    You can check more details from here.

     

     

     

    Best Regards,

    Stephen Tao

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    5 years ago

    Hi bigrods ,

     

    Try this calculated column

    Process =
IF (
    [Lesson No] = 2,
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( tbl_Assessment[Score] ),
        FILTER (
            ALLEXCEPT ( 'tbl_Assessment', tbl_Assessment[Student ID] ),
            [Lesson No] = 2
        )
    )
        - CALCULATE (
            SUM ( tbl_Assessment[Score] ),
            FILTER (
                ALLEXCEPT ( 'tbl_Assessment', tbl_Assessment[Student ID] ),
                [Lesson No] = 1
            )
        )
)

     

    You can check more details from here.

     

     

     

    Best Regards,

    Stephen Tao

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

  • Mikelytics's avatar
    Mikelytics
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    5 years ago

    Hi bigrods ,

     

    I think it would make sense to solve this using measures

     

    one measure for lesson one, one for lesson 2 and one for the delta. To also calulcate the average and single progres I would use the average function.

     

    e.g.

    Lesson 1 Score = CALCUATE(AVERAGE(table[lesson score]),table[lesson score]=1)

     

    Lesson 2 Score = CALCUATE(AVERAGE(table[lesson score]),table[lesson score]=2)

     

    Progress = [lesson 2 score] - [lesson 1 score]

     

    THe create a table (or matrix) with the students as row and the three measures as values.

     

    I hope that helps.

     

    Best regards

    Mikelytics

     

    Did I solve your request? Please mark my post as solution.

     

    Appreciate your Kudos.

     

    • bigrods's avatar
      bigrods
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      5 years ago

      Hi Mikelytics 

       

      Thanks so much, that works to get them into a matrix (see below).

       

      Is it possible to put the measure into a chart, i.e a bar chart showing the no. of students at each progress point (10,20,30 etc?) I have tried (below) but it's rightly not splitting into seperate points. Apologies, I should have figured that out before. Is this where the calculated column comes in?

       

      Many thanks

      • Mikelytics's avatar
        Mikelytics
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        5 years ago

        Hi bigrods ,

         

        you are right in this case you need a calculated column.

         

        Please try the following calculated column:

         

        CALCULATE(Max(table[score]),

        Filter(ALL(table),

        table[student ID] = EARLIER(table[student ID]) && table[lesson ID] = 2))


        Best regards

        Mikelytics

         

         

         

    • bigrods's avatar
      bigrods
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      5 years ago

      Hi sanalytics 

       

      Thanks for the reply, I am a couple of versions of PBI behind, need to get my IT to upgrade my version next week so unfortunately cannot view your pbix file.

      When I run your code, every value in the Progress column is blank - I have searched the code but cannot see anything glaring, it all looks fine. All columns are Whole Number format, would you have any possible suggestions? thanks a lot!