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Compute - Cumulated sum input

**Configuration** ```json { "cumul_columns": [ {"sales": "cumulative_sales"}, {"quantity": "cumulative_quantity"} ], "ref_column": "sales", "group_by": [] } ``` **Output**

Compute - Cumulated sum output

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