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I have a table of clients and their genders, and I need to identify the gender with the most values, so from a table like this:
Client 1 - Male
Client 2 - Male
Client 3 - Female
Client 4 - Male
Client 5 - Male
Client 6 - Male
I need to produce the word "Male" as a measure, because there are 5 males and only 1 female. I can't use visual filters to achieve this.
Using RANK, I got Male = 1 and Female = 2, but I'm not sure how to take that output and produce the word "Male".
What is wrong with my approach? Thank you!
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Hi @Anonymous
Please try
Max Gender =
MAXX (
TOPN (
1,
SUMMARIZE ( 'Table', 'Table'[Gender], "@Count", COUNTROWS ( 'Table' ) ),
[@Count]
),
'Table'[Gender]
)
Hi,
Please check the below picture and the attached pbix file.
expected result measure: =
VAR _gendertablewithcounting =
ADDCOLUMNS (
DISTINCT ( Data[Gender] ),
"@count", CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( Data ) )
)
VAR _groupbymaxcounting =
GROUPBY (
_gendertablewithcounting,
Data[Gender],
"@maxcount", MAXX ( CURRENTGROUP (), [@count] )
)
RETURN
MAXX ( _groupbymaxcounting, Data[Gender] )
Hi @Anonymous
Please try
Max Gender =
MAXX (
TOPN (
1,
SUMMARIZE ( 'Table', 'Table'[Gender], "@Count", COUNTROWS ( 'Table' ) ),
[@Count]
),
'Table'[Gender]
)
This worked great - I was able to even add a filter on to COUNTROWS to remove blanks from consideration. Thanks so much!
Didn't try the other option, that might work as well.
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