Bottom 5? or 20? But with a minimum.

Hello, TAMATO!

I'm working on pulling zip code data for our marketing director and I was easily able to make a top 20 widget, but I'm also looking to do least performing zip codes with a minimum of something like 100 tickets. Does anyone know a way to do this? 

Thanks in advance!

  • I was able to get there using between for my ticket count. the data set ended up being right around 20 for the range, but I'd love to know if there's another way. 

  • Hi Katie,

    Good work around. 

    To offer an alternative example, I took a copy of the Production Sales pre-built dashboard, and edited the Top 5 Postcodes by Ticket Count widget. I changed the Widget Filter for Postcode from Top 5 to Bottom 20, and then edited the Ranking formula. Instead of using a simple Sum of Ticket Count (or [Total Ticket Count]), I suggest a conditional formula that excludes postcodes with fewer than 100 tickets, which might look like this:

    IF ( [Total Ticket Count] >= 100
    , [Total Ticket Count]
    , NULL
    )

    Since this formula is being evaluated in the context of each distinct postal code, it will calculate the total ticket count within each postal code, and if the count is < 100, return a NULL (no data) for those postal codes. Returning a 0 won't work as that's still a value that would be among the bottom 20, whereas NULL is more like, make it not exist. For those where the ticket count is >= 100, it will still return their total ticket count as before.

  • Thanks, Chris!!!! I will put that into my dashboard so I can CASE it in the future!