Smart scalars to work on the result set that doesnt have a date

Hi I was wondering that if we can get smart scalars to work on 2 columns in the resultset, when one is numeric and another is a alphanumeric but not a date .
what Im trying to do is try to see how my feature performed over each build , ie lets say I want to the number of tests that passed/failed from 1.0 to 1.1 .

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yes, that feature would be really helpful

Can I open a feature request on Github ? Or is this already part of any future implementations that has be queued . I was not able to find any feature requests open in this regard on Github.

@sbelak Simon, would any of the new Smart Number features allow something like this or is this a new feature request?

We’re working on adding support for number vs. number smart numbers in https://github.com/metabase/metabase/pull/9438

Number over category is tricky for two reasons: no canonical ordering and no general distance measure between points on the x-axis. Having said that, I do want to have the ability to express the comparison of two things (eg. two categories) as growth. Feel free to open an issue and we’ll flash it out.

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Thanks @sbelak opened a issue under https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/10021 :slight_smile: