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Challenge #242: Meet Me Halfway

KilianL
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Can't wait until we can travel and visit other offices again.

 

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robert-headington
8 - Asteroid

Looking at the Alteryx weekly challenge solution, using summarize to create a centroid point is a lot nicer and easier to do than manually finding the minimum total distance from every other point in the region (which is what I did). I forgot that you can do spatial functions in summarize (I rarely need to do spatial analysis unfortunately so this is good practice).

dombaikamilla
8 - Asteroid
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Eilean_
8 - Asteroid

RT

apathetichell
18 - Pollux

My solution is brutally ugly and I'd imagine that using centroids in Transform functions can lead to errors. Somehow I thought I needed to use a Macro so the bulk of this is in an extended series of Transforms, Joins and Appends (in the totally unnecessary Macro)... But hey it works! Now off to review finer solutions and Spatial tools which make this one simple...

ACW
6 - Meteoroid

Took the long way but nailed it!  Thanks to all for the solution posts as they assisted in my Regex development and other short cuts I can implement with existing tool knowledge.

hannahc
8 - Asteroid

Solution attached!

 

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JoshuaGostick
11 - Bolide

My solution

 

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CRM66
8 - Asteroid

Having looked at others' solutions, I think I need to focus on using the spatial palette!~

danicahui
8 - Asteroid
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