sum based on distinct in another column

hello, this seems to be straight forward, but I could not get it.

I wanted to sum up the cost based on distinct code, but my beast mode does nto work:

a sample data, I wanted to calculate sum of cost by distinct code, the sum should be 33. each code has the same cost.

this is my beast mode:

SUM(
CASE
WHEN(distinct `code') then `cost`
END
)

code	cost
1	10
2	10
3	5
1	10
4	8

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WizardOz

I added an indicator in the dataflow. Every code when it is the first time presneted in the data, the indicator is 1, then I sumed up based on this indicator.

sum(
case
when `code_indicator` = 1 then `mc_spend`
else 0
end
)

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guitarhero23

Is something stopping you from just displaying the SUM of Cost by Code on a chart since normally in Domo if you were to put Code and then SUM of Cost on one card it would already do what you're asking without a beastmode.

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WizardOz

As you can see sum in the table has code 1 sumed up as 20, so I will get total of 43. But the actual sum is 33, in other words, I only want to sum for each code once.

in adition, after I get the sum, I will do some other calculations such as cost per visit, cost per download etc.

ST_Superman

This isn't something that you can do within a beastmode calculation. Especially if you are going to perform further calculations on it. I would recommend creating a new data set where you agregate this data at different levels. (once aggregated by visit id, once by download id, etc.)

You could use

SUM(DISTINCT `Cost`)

but that will only work to get the correct value for each row in the table, the Total row will still be off:

WizardOz

sum (distinct 'cost' ) could not give me the correct sum either. My dataset has 70m rows and 200 columns, and it is updated daily, I have many other calcualtions (combinations) I would like to do. I hope I can do it in beast mode instead of in dataflow.

WizardOz

I added an indicator in the dataflow. Every code when it is the first time presneted in the data, the indicator is 1, then I sumed up based on this indicator.

sum(
case
when `code_indicator` = 1 then `mc_spend`
else 0
end
)

brandon_johnson

I love your solution @WizardOz ! Simple, but allows for the data to remain unaggregated at a dataset level, that way you can aggregate in the card and employ drill path to get more and more detail, all from the same dataset! Wish I could like your answer more than once!