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Marketeasing
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How can I calculate an increment between two accumulated values?

 Hello, I have to calculate a new column CasesDay (red color) as the variation of the accumulated column CasesAcum

Thanks in advance

NameDateCasesAcumCasesDay
Afghanistan20/02/2020 0:0000
Afghanistan21/02/2020 0:0000
Afghanistan22/02/2020 0:0000
Afghanistan23/02/2020 0:0000
Afghanistan24/02/2020 0:0011
Afghanistan25/02/2020 0:0010
Afghanistan26/02/2020 0:0010
Afghanistan27/02/2020 0:0010
Afghanistan28/02/2020 0:0043
Afghanistan29/02/2020 0:0040
Afghanistan01/03/2020 0:0051
Afghanistan02/03/2020 0:0072
Afghanistan03/03/2020 0:0070
Afghanistan04/03/2020 0:0070
Afghanistan05/03/2020 0:00114
Afghanistan06/03/2020 0:00165
Afghanistan07/03/2020 0:00215
Afghanistan08/03/2020 0:00221
Afghanistan09/03/2020 0:00220
Afghanistan10/03/2020 0:00220
Afghanistan11/03/2020 0:00242
Afghanistan12/03/2020 0:00240
Afghanistan13/03/2020 0:004016
Afghanistan14/03/2020 0:00400
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Vvelarde
Community Champion
Community Champion

@Marketeasing 

 

Hi, Try this:

 

1. Add a Index Column

 

2. Add a Custom Column

try #"Added Index"{[Index]}[CasesAcum]-#"Added Index" {[Index]-1}[CasesAcum] otherwise 0

 

Regards

 

Victor

 




Lima - Peru

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Finally I've created a new formula to detect the change of name and that's solved

 

= Table.AddColumn(#"Índice agregado", "Cases", each if #"Índice agregado"{[Índice]}[#"Name"] = #"Índice agregado"{[Índice]-1}[#"Name"] then #"Índice agregado"{[Índice]}[#"CasesAcum"]-#"Índice agregado"{[Índice]-1}[#"CasesAcum"] else 0)

 

Thank you Victor

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Vvelarde
Community Champion
Community Champion

@Marketeasing 

 

Hi, Try this:

 

1. Add a Index Column

 

2. Add a Custom Column

try #"Added Index"{[Index]}[CasesAcum]-#"Added Index" {[Index]-1}[CasesAcum] otherwise 0

 

Regards

 

Victor

 




Lima - Peru
Anonymous
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Hi Vvelarde,

 

Thanks for your answer.

 

However, If I run the code as you wrote, all the results will shift up for 1 row. We can see that the first row has value, while the last row is null. The target answer should be an empty value in the first row with a value in the last row.

 

But I think the logic is perfect here, I don't what costs this problem.

Hello Victor, I've tried the expression that you said but I have big problems with the performance when is loading data.

This solition is non-viable.

 

Do you know how to create the same column from DAX? because woth powerquery doesn't work. 

 

I don't know why bit to access the rows through the index position is very slow.

 

Thank toy in advance

@Marketeasing 

 

Try with this Dax Calculated Column:

 

 

Mycolumn =
'Table'[CasesAcum]
    - CALCULATE (
        FIRSTNONBLANK ( 'Table'[CasesAcum]; 'Table'[CasesAcum] );
        TOPN (
            1;
            FILTER (
                'Table';
                'Table'[Name] = EARLIER ( 'Table'[Name] )
                    && 'Table'[Date] < EARLIER ( 'Table'[Date] )
            );
            'Table'[Date]; DESC
        )
    )

 

Or

 

Mycolumn =
'Table'[CasesAcum]
    - CALCULATE (
        LASTNONBLANK ( 'Table'[CasesAcum]; 'Table'[CasesAcum] );
        FILTER (
            'Table';
            'Table'[Name] = EARLIER ( 'Table'[Name] )
                && 'Table'[Date] < EARLIER ( 'Table'[Date] )
        )
    )

 

 

Regards

 

Victor




Lima - Peru

Hello victor, thank you for your answer, but there are more than one value in the column "Name", and I need to create an index for each "Name" value. Do you know how to do that? Thank you again 

Finally I've created a new formula to detect the change of name and that's solved

 

= Table.AddColumn(#"Índice agregado", "Cases", each if #"Índice agregado"{[Índice]}[#"Name"] = #"Índice agregado"{[Índice]-1}[#"Name"] then #"Índice agregado"{[Índice]}[#"CasesAcum"]-#"Índice agregado"{[Índice]-1}[#"CasesAcum"] else 0)

 

Thank you Victor

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