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Rearrange data

SylviaK
8 - Asteroid

 

Hi, 

 

Can someone please advise how to get from the below Input table to the below Output table?

 

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Many thanks for your help in advance.

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Thableaus
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @SylviaK 

 

Here's a way of doing. Workflow attached.

 

Split your category column into rows using "," as a delimiter. Use the Data Cleansing to remove extra whitespaces. Use the Summarize tool to Group by Category and do the count.

 

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Cheers,

JReid
9 - Comet

This was a nice quick challenge. Parse tools are one of the biggest hurdles, but most useful tools in Alteryx.

 

I think the attached file has the solution you're looking for!

 

EDIT: ahh @Thableaus beat me to it. Same solution too!

SylviaK
8 - Asteroid

Thank you Thableaus. It works perfectly. 

 

However, just realised that my data is in this format, so separating by comma doesn't work. Any ideas?

 

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Thableaus
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@SylviaK 

 

Try using this option in the Text to Columns tool.

 

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It will ignore any delimiters found inside quotes.

 

Cheers,

SylviaK
8 - Asteroid

Brilliant. That works. 

 

after the data into rows, would like to get rid of the quotes around my category. how do I do that?

Thableaus
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@SylviaK 

 

Use the Replace expression. Add a formula tool. Add this expression:

 

Replace ([Category], '"', "")

 

You would be replacing quotes for nothing.

 

Cheers,

SylviaK
8 - Asteroid

many thanks @Thableaus 

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