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Challenge #112: Organizing Survey Data

ChristineB
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

A solution to last week's Challenge has been posted here!

 

This week's Challenge really should be called "From Data Preparation Nightmare to Sweet Survey Dreams: Inspired by a True Story".  After sending out a survey, I received the results in a format that made me shudder.  But then, I remembered: I have Alteryx.

 Same, Kip....same.Same, Kip....same.

 Because I had so much fun with this real-life Challenge, I thought it might be right up your alley, too!  The input data contains the survey responses from conference attendees.  Parse and organize the provided survey data so that each survey responder's first name, last name, occupation industry and conference requests are aligned in a single record.  

NicoleJohnson
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

My solution! Interested to see who can come up with some smaller-number-of-tools solutions... mine seemed a bit lengthy.

 

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Cheers,

NJ

kat
12 - Quasar
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Is there a way to do this with less parse tools? Always looking for a faster way :)
kat
12 - Quasar

Took a second look and made it a lot more efficient. And finally used regex in formula!

 

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leesin
7 - Meteor
 
ponraj
13 - Pulsar

Uploading my version of solution

patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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Napoleon was left out of the data set so I just included his picture at the bottom.

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kcgreen
8 - Asteroid

I enjoyed this exercise.

 

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KevinW
8 - Asteroid
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ggruccio
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Got it!  ... but I'm guessing there is a way to do it in fewer steps!