How to count distinct values in a column?

[patrick-keen]

Hello,

How can I count distinct values in one column? For example this column has max. 5 options.

Customer demand,Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility,Efficiency separated by ( , )

Customer demand,Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility,Efficiency
Customer demand,Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility,Efficiency
Customer demand,Innovation,Efficiency
Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility,Efficiency
Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation
Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation
Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility

The sum should be:

Customer demand = 3

Monthly recurrent revenue = 5

Innovation = 7

Scalability & Flexibility = 4

Efficiency = 4

Kind regards, Patrick 

[v-yuta-msft]

Hi patrick-keen ,

Please refer to steps below:

1.Click Query Editor-> Split Column by Delimiter->Select Comma as a delimiter. Result is like this:

 

2.Select column1.1 column1.2 column1.3 column1.4 column1.5-> Click Transform-> Unpivot Columns

 

3.After applied&close, create a measure using DAX like this:

Result = COUNTROWS(Table1)

 

PBIX file here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6q124z4g1344796/patrick-keen.pbix?dl=0 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

[patrick-keen]

Hello Jimmy,

this works fine for one column, but I have multiple columns with distinct values and than it doesn't work.

Do you have any solutions for this? Thank you in advanced.

Kind regards,

Patrick Oude Scholten

[v-yuta-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi patrick-keen,

Select all of the columns and click Unpivot before step 1 above, steps left are same with above.

Regards,

Jimmy Tao 

[patrick-keen]

Hello Jimmy,

I used a part of your solution and added additional querys/tables in Power BI to split them.

Thanks for helping me out.

Kind regards,

Patrick Oude Scholten 

[Floriankx]

Hello,

please check this post.

[jthomson]

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@patrick-keen wrote:

Hello,

How can I count distinct values in one column?

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Does DISTINCTCOUNT not give you what you want?

[patrick-keen]

Can you give an example?

Table values:

Customer demand,Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility,Efficiency
Customer demand,Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility,Efficiency
Customer demand,Innovation,Efficiency
Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility,Efficiency
Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation
Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation
Monthly recurrent revenue,Innovation,Scalability & Flexibility

for example:

Customer demand the sum should be 3

Monthly recurrent revenue the sum should be 5

Innovation the sum should be 7

Scalability & Flexibility the sum should be 4

Efficiency the sum should be 4