I've been asked to create a trend that shows the number of open projects (y-axis) for an arbitrary date range(x-axis). A sample of my data looks like this:
Project_ID | Date_Opened | Date_Closed |
|---|
1 | 1/1/2024 | 4/5/2024 |
2 | 1/18/2024 | 4/6/2024 |
3 | 2/2/2024 | 3/1/2024 |
4 | 2/9/2024 | |
5 | 2/27/2024 | |
6 | 3/14/2024 | 4/20/2024 |
7 | 4/3/2024 | |
8 | 4/11/2024 | |
9 | 4/30/2024 | |
10 | 5/1/2024 | |
| | |
The users want to be able to choose a date range, say 4/1/2024 to 4/7/2024, and see how many projects were open for each date interval in the range they selected (trending). The data above would yield a result like this:
| 4/1/2024 | 4/2/2024 | 4/3/2024 | 4/4/2024 | 4/5/2024 | 4/6/2024 | 4/7/2024 |
|---|
Open Projects | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
I'm struggling to create an x-axis of dates independent of dates in my data that I can use in a beast mode to compare to open & closed dates. Is there a way to do this without building it in the ETL? Currently I use a couple variables for custom date ranges, but I've never had to create a range where the dates in my data are not the relevant axis. I'm trying to avoid adding a count by date in my dataset because there are several other metrics I'll need to group by which will result in a large dataset only used for this card.
Thanks for any advice!
