Challenge #106: How Long were the Lights On?

JoeM · ‎03-05-2018

Last week's solution can be found here:

This week, we have a simple data set that represents times that inhabitants enter and exit rooms within their household. Assuming inhabitants have the lights of the room on whenever they are present and off when they are not (think motion detection), how many minutes were lights on in each of the rooms?

Note: If there are overlapping time entries, assume the light is on as long as someone is present in the room.
Example: Person 1 is in the room from 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, and person 2 is in the same room from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. The amount of time the light was on was from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM (do not count duplicate time).

jamielaird · ‎03-05-2018

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Trickier than I thought until I realised that DateTimes would be easier to work with than Times. Managed to solve this with two tools in the end:

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Trickier than I thought until I realised that DateTimes would be easier to work with than Times. Managed to solve this with two tools in the end:

NicoleJohnson · ‎03-05-2018

Two-tool solution! :)

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Cheers,

NJ

Natasha · ‎03-05-2018

Here is my totally overcomplicated solution, just because

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I didn't want to use Generate Row tool, thinking that on a real size data generating every minute would create a massive dataset, also it seems like a direct solution and I was interested to find if there is another way. And of course it is with Alteryx!

Could also do it in two tools but then my already hard-to read formula in multi-row tool would be even worse, so I decided to leave 3 tools.

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I didn't want to use Generate Row tool, thinking that on a real size data generating every minute would create a massive dataset, also it seems like a direct solution and I was interested to find if there is another way. And of course it is with Alteryx!Could also do it in two tools but then my already hard-to read formula in multi-row tool would be even worse, so I decided to leave 3 tools.

bdaniels · ‎03-05-2018

Here's my pass at it!

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No Generate Rows or complex Multi-Row formula when I was trying, but its neat to see all the ways other people trimmed the fat in their solutions!
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No Generate Rows or complex Multi-Row formula when I was trying, but its neat to see all the ways other people trimmed the fat in their solutions!

patrick_digan · ‎03-05-2018

I guess it's one of those times where the straight forward solution wasn't coming to mind...

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BenMoss · ‎03-06-2018

Got there eventually

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Claje · ‎03-06-2018

Solution attached.

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I'm not sure if my method is the most optimal or not - basically I created a distinct record for each minute that existed and then used a pair of summarize tools. You could also use a count_distinct and cut the second summarize.

kcgreen · ‎03-06-2018

This was harder than I expected.

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MMehdi · ‎03-06-2018

Hello,

Challenge #106 resolved.

Please find my workflow-solution attached.