This is so amazing I'm wondering how on earth they got publishers on board with this. I guess technically they don't need their permission, but I see some hilariously oversized coffee mugs being thrown across board rooms in anger after reading this announcement.
Data scientist here! What you have discovered is what's known in data analytics as a semi-additive measure. Instead of summing the balance column, you would count it, and get a measure that showed how many transactions took place, but not a balance. Of course, there's no reason to simply count the one column, a row count would suffice and return the same.
I do this, I dump everything into notepad ++ files, and the forget it. Todos, meeting notes, SQL queries, reminders, contact info, you name it. Screw OneNote, np++ is king.
"A Republican bill could make it worse" is essentially the state motto at this point, put it on the fucking license plates