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# Cognite Charts: Cumulative Sum Calculations

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On behalf of Celanese Clear Lake Utilities super user

Does Charts currently support the option to create cumulative sum calculations? For example, when calculating total usage/consumption of fuel gas across the site, the user usually has to get the individual data points from the raw data sources and then do the calculation manually in an excel sheet. The user has to repeat these calculations every month.

Could Charts potentially automate this calculation to provide real-time data to display a summary of data as it grows over time for consumption/usage? Also, would Charts be able to “reset” this calculation every month?

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Userlevel 5
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Hi @crgomez13 and thanks for the question.

Yes, we have an Integration function (Function → Operators → Integration) that will do exactly this. The function includes a parameter so you are able to specify the frequency or granularity of the calculation (e.g. 1 hour):

The maximum result of this calculation (i.e. the right-most data point) will be the total, cumulative value for the range in view. You can view this max value by hovering your cursor over this value, in the Max column of the table below the plot, and/or by opening the statistics panel (clicking the ℹ️ icon).

In addition, we have a Sliding window integration function, to measure cumulative values over a sliding time window, and a Cumulative sum (CUSUM) function, where you can visualize the cumulative sum of the positive or negative changes in the data. And if you have a request for an additional type of function to meet your use case, please do let us know!

Since all calculations are run on the fly based on the data in view on the plot, after you’ve created the chart with these calculations, you only need to change the date range to view results for the last day, week, month, etc. You can choose the quick date selectors along the top of the chart to quickly snap the view to that period and/or choose a date from the date selector. With that, Charts can absolutely be used to “reset” this calculation every month by re-loading the chart and choosing the date/time period of interest.

In terms of automating this calculation – i.e. Running this calculation on a defined schedule to create new data in Cognite Data Fusion as a calculated time series – this is functionality we’re working on right now. We’ll post updates to Cognite Hub as we make progress and open it up to early adopters, but this will be a focus for H1 2023. This includes being able to create monitoring tasks and set up alerts on these calculated values.

Note: If you see a Warning for your calculation informing that:

“Due to a large amount of data in the given range, data points in time series _____ were fetched as aggregates instead of raw

then it means that your time series has more than 100k data points and has been downsampled to 10k data points for the range currently in view. I touched upon this topic in another thread here. If you or anyone at Celanese Clear Lake encounters this issue for a particular time series or calculation, please do reach out in this or a new post on Cognite Hub. From there, we can discuss and recommend the best strategy for resolving this issue, should it impact that use case.

Userlevel 1
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Hi @crgomez13

Just following up here from my side. Has Eric's above replay helped you?

Best regards,
Dilini