sdg.marinusvz
2012-08-10 07:59
Please look at the attached and let me know where the difference is?
 
The attached show 2 reports.
-          Yr to date
o   Shows the month to month comparable predictive
-          July (benchmark graph)
o   Shows the comparable for July
 
Problem I have is that surely July in the yr to date should reflect the same figure as the July benchmark Graph when looking at the [censored] Totals?
sdg.marinusvz
2012-08-10 08:00
There is a perfectly legitimate reason why they are different.
The  reason is that the 'comparable' for the year up to date is only taking  that into account that is comparable from the beginning of the year. In  other words, it will not take something in account that came online in  the first 6 months of last year.
The 'comparable' for the benchmark is taking into account all that  is comparable for July only. This means if it came online in the first  six months of last year, if will be taken into account. That is why this  one is higher than the other one.
The reason why the algorithm is different in this respect, is  because with the year to date, the user wants to identify a trend over  the year, in other words, he is actively comparing the last year graph  bars to each other. If we do not discount meters that came online after  the start of last year, we will show him a graph that increases, and he  would 'compare' that to the previous months and thinks he is using more  energy, when in fact the existing ones perhaps did not.
Anyway, hope that clears it up!