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I want to create a measure that allows me to find the top 5 and bottom 5 for departments over a course of 2 months.
I have already created a measure that finds the percent difference between payments from one month to the next, now I would like to be able to compare and visualize that difference.
I want to find the top 5 deparmets with the greatest increase in payments and the bottom 5 departments with the greatest decrease in payments.
I'm fairly new to Power BI so I am not sure how to go about doing this. Here is a sample of my data:
DATE | DEPARTMENT | PAYMENTS | Increase/Decrease |
February | 000 | 12 |
|
March | 000 | 2 | -83% |
February | 001 | 312 |
|
March | 001 | 463 | 48% |
February | 002 | 127 |
|
March | 002 | 17 | -87% |
I really appreciate the help and I thank you all in advance!
Solved! Go to Solution.
@Anonymous ,
Please convert Increase/Decrease to calculate column, then create two tables by clicking Modeling-> New Table using DAX below:
Top 5 Increase = TOPN(5, FILTER('Table', 'Table'[Increase/Decrease] > 0), 'Table'[Increase/Decrease], DESC)
Bottom 5 Decrease = TOPN(5, FILTER('Table', 'Table'[Increase/Decrease] < 0), 'Table'[Increase/Decrease], ASC)
Community Support Team _ Jimmy Tao
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@Anonymous ,
Please convert Increase/Decrease to calculate column, then create two tables by clicking Modeling-> New Table using DAX below:
Top 5 Increase = TOPN(5, FILTER('Table', 'Table'[Increase/Decrease] > 0), 'Table'[Increase/Decrease], DESC)
Bottom 5 Decrease = TOPN(5, FILTER('Table', 'Table'[Increase/Decrease] < 0), 'Table'[Increase/Decrease], ASC)
Community Support Team _ Jimmy 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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