Challenge #202: Love Poetry

A solution to last week's challenge can be found here!

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, you're probably thinking about how to share how you feel with that special someone. Why not try to express your love with some poetry?

In this challenge, we'll take some inspiration from a poetry legend: William Shakespeare. Create an app to create your perfect love poem with a few custom tweaks...Mad Libs style! Feel free to use Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (provided in the Start File) or another of your favorite poems as your base. Then, add Interface Tools (Text Boxes will come in handy for this!) to allow a user to infuse this poem with their own expressions of affection.

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Aaron_Harter

A weekly challenge for all the romantics out there!

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App Interface:

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Blake

I went with a different poem - enjoy!

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JORGE4900

Just understanding the game was hard enough, let alone the app.

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RolandSchubert

My solution ... not really creative from a poetry point of view

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T_Willins

My solution.

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jacrae

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patrick_digan

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I used google to fill in the blanks. I used reference shortcuts to pass the data directly to the text input tool.

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cplewis90

Fun challenge! Apps are truly the best! How did you all know my favorite game as a kid was Mad Libs!?!?!?

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My workflow went through several iterations and probably could go through more.
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Here is my interface:
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The results of this fun app:
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hbraunius

My solution is attached.

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Strohy

Nice one to get more comfortable with App inputs.

Exported as package and attached.

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mbogusz

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lmao

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kelvin_law1

Here is my solution:

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TonyA

Not too difficult but one of the weirdest challenges I've seen so far.

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I made one change in that I changed all occurrences of "summer." It would have been easy to add a condition to limit the replace to the first row but I thought it sounded funnier to make all of them the same.

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AkimasaKajitani

My Solution.

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JamesBills

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Tricky as i have never made app. Opened a few spoiler tabs for a steer but got there in the end. Separated out just the first line to only replace "summer" once.

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Greg_Murray

Solution attached.

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JennyMartin

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Find my video solution here: https://www.dataprepsolutions.com/2020/02/alteryx-weekly-challenge-202-intro-to.html

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sonyakasenkramer

Fun! I've never made an app before.

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OllieClarke

This challenge tested my grammar and my patience more than anything else

Not 100% sure I've made a Mad Lib, but I don't really know the game.

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Ubaj

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JamesCameron

Here's this week's effort

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Just changed first 4 lines of the poem

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RichoBsJ

Hi!! Really nice challenge! Enjoy my solution 🙂

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rmassambane

Challenge_202.zip

RobertW

Used a slightly different "poem"

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delilah

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JoshuaGostick

My solution

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pasccout

Not a poet... would of liked something more dynamic... wished you could have a way to put an default text in the text input tool but...

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danilang

Here's a Dynamic Mad Lib Interface Maker, that produced the following gem

A Dog's Day

Shall I compare thee to a autumn's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough pats do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the cat of heaven hisses,
And often is his brindle complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's slobbery course unshed'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as mailmen can chase or treats can eat,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Here's the Mad Libs interface that created it.

Nothing too fancy so far. It's a simple analytic app that uses reference short cuts to fill in the blanks. It's also the second app in a chain. The first app reads a Mad Libs template file like this

Shall I compare thee to a __Season__'s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough __Plural_Noun__ do shake the darling buds of May,
etc...

and generates the user interface that's shown above in the second app, before chaining to it. Change the template and you get a different UI.

This input template

There once was a man from Madras 
Whose __Plural_Body_Part__ were made of brass
In stormy weather
They clang together
And sparks fly out of his __Another_Body_Part__!

gives you this UI

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jmt214

This was a good challenge! Apps and parsing and replacing, oh my!

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RWvanLeeuwen

That was fun

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App interface:

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Sylvana

My solution

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rmaunsell001

Hey, I'm new to Alteryx and an trying to follow some of the solutions to weekly challenge 202, say for example in Jorge4900 solution, how do I see the output ? presume the idea is that you can update the "This" column with your list of words in the keywords text input ? and then press run and you see your version of the poem? but how/where do you see the output? or what am I missing ?

Thanks

Rose

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