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A solution to last week's challenge can be found here.    This week's challenge focuses on a group of relatives and their birthdays. Of the six family members, we have one person's date of birth and a series of clues to calculate the others. Provide the DOB for all family members and the day of the week s/he was born. ... View more

A solution to last week's challenge can be found here.    Palindromes are words that are spelled the same backwards as forwards. They aren't inherently better than other words, but they have a special name and we think that counts for something! Speaking of counting...   For this week's challenge, count the number of palindromes in the provided dataset. Also, find the most common starting letter for the palindromes and count the number of palindromes that begin with that letter. ... View more

A solution to last week's challenge can be found here.  Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wkulicki/4010582747/   Did you know that professional golf tournaments start on Thursday and last through Sunday. The players compete on the first two days and only the players with the best scores are allowed to finish the tournament. This is referred to as "making the cut" and it comes with real consequences...money! Players who don't make the cut do not get paid, while everyone who completes the tournament receives a payout based on their final rankings in the tournament.   For this week's challenge, use the included dataset (which contains tournament results for the last 5 years) to find the 5 players with the highest earnings per event, and the top 5 players who have earned the most money without winning any events. ... View more

A solution to last week's challenge can be found here.     This challenge comes to us from @EW  - thank you for your contribution!   A group of friends can't decide on a movie theater at which to see a movie. Given the locations of their apartments and major movie theaters in the area, determine the top three movie theaters to minimize total distance traveled in one direction.  Create a map with the theater and home locations.    Source: GIPHY     ... View more

A solution to last week's challenge can be found here!    This challenge was created for a HackCU hackathon event in which teams were formed and were given 24 consecutive hours and Alteryx Designer to solve the challenge.   In this challenge you must break apart the given [encoded_string] into two character pairs and then build a decoder table, mapping the two-character pairs into ASCII characters to reveal a pig-latin encoded document.   To solve, or not to solve: that is the question.   ... View more