如何计算datastudio中的一系列值

Question

I am trying to transform a report that I have made in sheets into the newest datastudio tool. In my sheet, I have a table where there are several columns that holds data related (this is because each row could have more than one value so I used the "split text into columns" function to represent).

What I have is something similar to:

ID	Component	Component 1	Component 2
101	wood	metal	gold
102	metal	copper
103	wood	gold	metal

In my excel, I have a formula to count the time a certain component is shown by using =COUNTIF(<range>,<string>)

Therefore, with the above formula, I have something similar to:

Component	count
wood	2
metal	3
copper	1
gold	2

I want to be able to build the same in datastudio. Turns out that since the components are divided into columns, I can only use one dimension and the result only shows the count of the first column.

I want to know if there is an easy way to accomplish this. My original data source is like this:

ID	Component
101	wood;metal;gold
102	meta;copper
103	wood;gold;metal

Maybe it's easier to work directly with the previous format but again, using the component in this case only counts for the first occurrence and not across the whole string.

For now, the only solution I can think of is splitting the text into rows instead of columns, but that is not feasible achievable using Google Sheets, or at least not that I am aware of.

Could somebody have an idea of how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Edit

I am adding here the minimal reproducible example. This is the spreadsheet that I have (example) and the current report I am using so far (built-in sheets): Now, I want to have the same report (plus more things) using datastudio. This is the report example I have in data studio. As you will see the record count for components is not accurate in DataStudio.

Answer 1

Here is a preliminary answer. I'll polish if we like it and delete it otherwise.

Consider the following sheet:

Range A2:B4 contains my data of interest. Rows 7:10 show the results I think you are looking for. The mechanism for creating this is the value of cell A6 which contains:

=ARRAYFORMULA(QUERY(FLATTEN(SPLIT(B2:B4,";")), "SELECT Col1, COUNT(Col1)  WHERE Col1 is not null GROUP BY Col1"))

At the highest level, the formula splits each of the delimited text items into their own cell and then flattens all these cells into one column against which we then run a SQL query against the sheet to group and count them.