Bigquery moving average

Question

Can anybody tell me how to calculate moving average in bigquery.

Here is what I need in mysql style.

SELECT T1.id, T1.value_column1, avg(T2.value_col         


        

Answer 1

I have created the following "Times" table:

Table Details: Dim_Periods
Schema
Date    TIMESTAMP   
Year    INTEGER         
Month   INTEGER         
day         INTEGER         
QUARTER INTEGER     
DAYOFWEEK   INTEGER     
MonthStart  TIMESTAMP   
MonthEnd    TIMESTAMP   
WeekStart   TIMESTAMP   
WeekEnd TIMESTAMP   
Back30Days  TIMESTAMP   -- the date 30 days before "Date"
Back7Days   TIMESTAMP   -- the date 7 days before "Date"

and I use such query to handle "running sums"

SELECT Date,Count(*) as MovingCNT
FROM

(SELECT Date,
                Back7Days 
                    FROM DWH.Dim_Periods  
                 where Date < timestamp(current_date()) AND
                             Date >= (DATE_ADD (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), -5, 'month'))
                )P
                CROSS JOIN EACH
    (SELECT repository_url,repository_created_at
    FROM publicdata:samples.github_timeline
                ) L
        WHERE timestamp(repository_created_at)>= Back7Days 
              AND timestamp(repository_created_at)<= Date

GROUP EACH BY Date

Note that it can be used for "Month to date", Week to Date" "30 days back" etc. aggregations as well. However, performance is not the best and the query can take a while on larger data sets due to the Cartesian join. Hope this helps