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debmsarkar123
Contributor III
Contributor III

Aggregating over null values

My dataset:

 

MonthYear              Name       Time (Mins)   Changes

Jan-2022 Ar 2760 120
Jan-2022 Ar 4218 111
Jan-2022 Ar    
Jan-2022 Bel 529.2 36
Jan-2022 Bel 723.8 47
Jan-2022 Bel 768 48
Jan-2022 Bel 1410 100
Jan-2022 Bel   0
Jan-2022 Bel    
Jan-2022 G 1722 82
Jan-2022 G 2300 115
Jan-2022 G 2850 114
Jan-2022 G    
Jan-2022 M 127.6 4
Jan-2022 M 606.1 19
Jan-2022 M 1251.6 42
Jan-2022 M 1744.2 57
Jan-2022 M    
Jan-2022 Sr   41
Jan-2022 Sr    
Jan-2022 Tal   59.5
Jan-2022 Tal    

 

Now I want to aggregate based on Name and Month year  and I dont want to consider the rows where we have Time(Mins) and Changes zero.

Hence I am using this expression-

aggr(
if(
(sum([Time (Mins)])
/
sum([Changes])) = 0, null(),

(sum([Time (Mins)])
/
sum([Changes]) ))
,
MonthYear,[Plant Name])

 

This is giving me 24.4 ( I have put Total mode as Average of rows in presentation tab)

 

but when I manually do it the answer come 23.48

More explanation on how I am manually calculating-

Im ignoring Sr , Tal rows as they have incomplete data( numerator or denominator missing) and other rows which are blank fully. I am summing the Time(mins) and Changes and then dividing it.

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3 Replies
Digvijay_Singh
MVP
MVP

I think your manual calculation resembles this below - 

Digvijay_Singh_0-1647894775695.png

But if you aggr by Monthyear and name, it actually first groups values by that combination and then takes average, I have seen average function can give different values based on against which dimension you take the average.

Digvijay_Singh_1-1647894899569.png

 

debmsarkar123
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.  Is there any way to match the numbers for both scenarios?

Digvijay_Singh
MVP
MVP

Not sure caz excel also shows the same behavior..