/tags/table-calc/ Recent content in Table Calc on Bitfern Hugo en-nz Sun, 03 Sep 2023 00:56:21 +0000 /blog/top-m-within-each-top-n-of-categories/ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 00:56:21 +0000 /blog/top-m-within-each-top-n-of-categories/ <p>I recently helped with a Tableau community forums question where the user needed to:</p> <ul> <li>filter to the top N categories based on a measure,</li> <li>using a dense rank (so that categories with the same value had the same rank),</li> <li>but list no more than M categories within each rank (based on another criteria)</li> </ul> <p>This screenshot illustrates the requirement where we want to see the top 5 categories based on sales, where categories with the same sales have the same rank. <em>But</em> we only want to see the top 2 within each rank, based on lowest cost:</p>