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jcoolen09
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subtract values of Column A and Column B

I want to subtract the values from Column A and Column B 

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For example, for the first row, I would expect the New Column value to be the difference between 16.7 - 5.10, so I would expect a new value in New Column to be 11.6. The basic subtraction measures I've tried are giving results that make no sense to me. It's worth mentioning that Column B is Summed and Column A is not. 

 

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please help! Thanks!

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jcoolen09
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solved this by using a Group By in the Transform Data. That seemed to fix up the calculations

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jcoolen09
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solved this by using a Group By in the Transform Data. That seemed to fix up the calculations

nvprasad
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Hi Jcoolen09,

 

Can you try the below measure?

 

Difference = CALCULATE(SUM(Data[A])-SUM(Data[B]))
 
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That does not work 

 

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