EXAMPLE - SUMIF Function

This example can be used to sum the values in a column based on a condition and organized by group.

Function:

Source:

The following data identifies sales figures by salespeople for a week:

Transformation:

You want to know how your salespeople are doing by the day of the week. To the above, you add a column that identifies the day of the week:

Single row formula

WEEKDAY(Date)

'DayOfWeek'

First you wish to examine weekday sales, when DayOfWeek < 6. For each day of the week, you can preview the following aggregation:

groupId

sumif(Sales, DayOfWeek < 6)

Performance is listed in the following order: S001, S002, S003.

To analyze the weekend, you change the above to the following:

groupId

sumif(Sales, (DayOfWeek >= 5))

Results:

The following are the results for the weekend: