Learn about group aggregation functions, or pinned measures.

What if you want to aggregate a value by a specific attribute (for example, show revenue by product)? This is known as a grouped aggregation, but some people call it a pinned measure or level-based measure. You can do this for any aggregation using the grouping functions.

Each of the grouping functions accepts a measure and one or more optional attributes:

formula (measure, [attribute, attribute, ...])

Only the measure value is required. If you supply both a measure and an attribute, the function returns the aggregate of the measure grouped by the attribute(s). You should experiment with only a measure and then with an attribute to see which output best meets your use case.

List of group functions

Group aggregation functions have names with formats like group_<aggregation>. The group aggregation functions are the following:

Function	Description
group_average	Takes a measure and one or more attributes. Returns the average of the measure grouped by the attribute(s). group_average (revenue, customer region)
group_count	Takes a measure and one or more attributes. Returns the count of the measure grouped by the attribute(s). group_count (revenue, customer region)
group_max	Takes a measure and one or more attributes. Returns the maximum of the measure grouped by the attribute(s). group_max (revenue, customer region)
group_min	Takes a measure and one or more attributes. Returns the minimum of the measure grouped by the attribute(s). group_min (revenue, customer region)
group_stddev	Takes a measure and one or more attributes. Returns the standard deviation of the measure grouped by the attribute(s). group_stddev (revenue, customer region)
group_sum	Takes a measure and one or more attributes. Returns the sum of the measure grouped by the attribute(s). group_sum (revenue, customer region)
group_unique_count	Takes a column name and one or more attributes. Returns the number of unique values in a column, grouped by the attribute(s). group_unique_count ( product, supplier)
group_variance	Takes a measure and one or more attributes. Returns the variance of the measure grouped by the attribute(s). group_variance (revenue, customer region)

Flexible aggregation

The group_aggregate function gives you more control over aggregation and filtering.

See Flexible aggregation to learn more about specifying query_groups with this formula.