Add the number style `k`, `B`, `M` to the dimension + metric config

Description: What is it?

in the metric or dimension configuration, you can add a style option to make the numeric field into units of thousands, millions, billions.

You can do this using compact = k, m, b or default

Problem: What problem does this solve?

Sometimes, I want my values to be formatted in different units to the raw data

What: Roughly, what does this look like in the product?

name: revenue
  meta:
    dimension: 
      compact: default
    metrics:
      total_revenue:
        type: sum
        compact: k

• If I had the revenue values (the first dimension in the example above with compact = default) of 1,000,000 and 150,000, then they would appear as 1m and 150k in Lightdash
• If I had the total revenue values (the metric in the example above with compact = k) of 1,000,000 and 150,000, then they would appear as 1,000k and 150k in Lightdash.
• Unit options are: ‘k’ or ‘thousands’ for thousands, ‘m’ or ‘millions’ for millions, ‘b’ or ‘billions’ for billions
• By default, there are 2 decimal places. (e.g. 1,550,000 with compact = m would appear as: 1.55m). If there were only 0s after the number, then it would still appear with two decimal places (e.g. 1,000,000 with compact = m would appear as: 1.00m).
• Users can override the number of decimal places shown using the round. So, round gets applied after compact. For example, if I had the value 1,550,000 with compact = m and round = 1, it would appear as 1.6m.

[JohnRomanski]

I agree that Tableau has the best of both worlds. Also remember to include date formatting options:

3 Jun 03 Jun Jun 3 June 3rd 06/03 6/3 6.3 2022-06-03 etc

[thedataguy-official]

I think that there should be a default solution configurable in dbt (especially useful for dates, currency formats, etc), but also the ability to overwrite this in the UI depending on the analyst and the use case.

For example, it could be monthly reporting is in the thousands, but year-to-date reporting is in the millions. It could be that Finance would want full figures reported. UI-wise, I’ll add a vote to the Tableau-like solution.