Why are my week dimension rows duplicating when I have the month dimension selected?

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Last tested; Feb 1, 2021
 

You may notice that when you select the week dimension and some other fields, your data looks alright!

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However, when you add in your month dimension, some of your week rows are duplicating!

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Why is this happening? In this case, we can see 2020-12-28 getting repeated. This is because this week starts in the month 2021-012 and ends in 2021-01. There are two of the same week values, but they're getting correlated to two different months, causing the duplication.

How can we fix it? We can add in a table calculation to extract the month. This will correlate the week to the month it starts in.

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