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Stairway to DAX and Power BI - Level 7: Function / Iterator Function Pairs: The DAX AVERAGE() and AVERAGEX() Functions

  • August 29, 2014 at 8:08 am

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    Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to DAX and Power BI - Level 7: Function / Iterator Function Pairs: The DAX AVERAGE() and AVERAGEX() Functions

  • September 17, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    #1746188

    Thanks Bill! And keep them coming! Well done.

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  • September 25, 2014 at 5:56 am

    #1748110

    Hi Bill,

    thanks for the Series. I've struggling with an odd problem with comparing the results in Excel. When I copy the filtered results across and apply the Auto-Average Function I get a higher value then I do using PowerPivot. I added the values and the sum is also higher in Excel than PowerPivot. I then created a simple pivot table on the Re-seller sales amount filtered by the Order Date Key and that returned the same value as PowerPivot. Could you shed any light on why this might be?

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  • December 29, 2014 at 10:00 am

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    Thanks Bill for very interesting and very detailed lessons.

    But functions like DISTINCT, BLANK, SUM are relatively easy and trivial. Everyone who have ever worked with Excel or SQL will quickly figure out how to use them, even it's not so difficult to figure out the differences between SUM and SUMX.

    But the really difficult functions that I expect to learn them here in Stairways are ALL, ROLLUP, CALCULATE, CALCULATETABLE, ADDCOLUMNS, ALLEXCEPT, FILTER, and especially combinations of them, the proper order of nesting, and how to use them and convert from EVALUATE context in SSMS to calculated dimensions and measures in model design.

    Thanks

  • December 29, 2014 at 10:19 am

    #1766820

    Thanks for your input.

    I've had lots of e-mails / other correspondence indicating that many want to "start out slowly." For that matter, I jumped ahead to more advanced scenarios (in the opinion of some readers) on a couple of articles in the MDX Stairway (as well as other places), as I like to write about the more sophisticated stuff sometimes (stuff I do in everyday consulting) - and got complaints for not being "progressive: starting with simple," in a few cases ... I have all the functions you mention, and many more sophisticated uses of DAX, on the roadmap for this series, which will be around for some time, by the look of it.

    Please feel free to explore the myriad blogs on the specific topics you seek in the meantime!

    Thanks for reading.

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  • May 3, 2017 at 9:31 am

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    Appreciate this stairway is 3 years old....being somewhat naive on this subject, is the information still relevant today with MS Power BI (2017)?

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