I need to return a value for a particular row and column

[shikhar6339]

Below is my data. I need to create a measure which will return a value of Germany on 20211211 i.e. 81. What will be the formula for that measure?

Country	20211210	20211211	20211212	20211213	20211214	20211215	20211216	20211217	20211218	20211219	20211220
USA	24	90	49	60	90	85	66	90	35	75	83
Germany	19	81	52	49	12	46	71	76	67	46	86
India	72	66	64	40	25	82	34	56	57	42	77
Greece	13	65	42	88	37	74	58	11	83	52	40
UAE	28	28	29	81	33	28	24	40	27	55	74
Australia	70	67	23	58	82	57	31	65	23	51	64
New Zealand	61	79	29	21	40	47	71	43	82	14	80
Zimbabwe	19	21	72	48	16	83	78	29	89	38	12
South Africa	48	80	15	13	31	31	56	36	13	16	36
Russia	52	69	38	44	80	49	12	38	51	56	29

[smpa01]

@shikhar6339 unpivoting first step

[parry2k]

@shikhar6339 solution I suggested is the way to go, if you have more columns, just select all those columns except date column and then unpivot it.

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[shikhar6339]

Thanks you for the solution. But the table I have mentioned above is just a sample table. Exactly what I have is a data of covid cases of 130 countries for 1.5 years with dates as column names and country names as rows and covid cases as field values.

What I am looking for is a measure where it will return a particular value of cases (for eg: I want to see what were the total covid cases of India on 31st July 2021). I want 2 measures of similar type because I want to use them in KPI visual later on.

Please suggest any solution for this situation.

[v-chenwuz-msft]

Hi @shikhar6339 ,

Power BI can not filter columns but rows. The method parry2k mentioned is what we usually do to filter columns. Don't worry, the power query can have up to 16384 columns. If you still feel unsure, you can transpose first. Then unpivot columns.

steps:

Use headers as first row -> transpose -> use first row as headers -> select first column -> right click and unpivot other columns.

Then on the page you can just use a simple measure  = sum(table[value]) in a card show the result

Pbix in the end you can refer.

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[parry2k]

@shikhar6339 best way is to unpivot your data and then it is straight forward

Transform Data -> select country column -> Right Click -> Unpivot other columns

you will get attribute and value columns, rename it as you see fit -> close and apply

In matrix visual, put country on rows, attribute (or renamed column) on columns, and value on values. Use country and attribute as a slicer and filter on any country and/or any date.

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