Computing a moving maximum in BigQuery

Question

Given a BigQuery table with some ordering, and some numbers, I\'d like to compute a \"moving maximum\" of the numbers -- similar to a moving average, but for a maximum inste

Answer 1

A trick I'm using for rolling windows: CROSS JOIN with a table of numbers. In this case, to have a moving window of 3 years, I cross join with the numbers 0,1,2. Then you can create an id for each group (ending_at_year==year-i) and group by that.

SELECT ending_at_year, MAX(mean_temp) max_temp, COUNT(DISTINCT year) c
FROM 
(
 SELECT mean_temp, year-i ending_at_year, year
 FROM [publicdata:samples.gsod] a
 CROSS JOIN 
  (SELECT i FROM [fh-bigquery:public_dump.numbers_255] WHERE i<3) b
 WHERE station_number=722860
)
GROUP BY ending_at_year
HAVING c=3
ORDER BY ending_at_year;