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Challenge #279: How many Olympic Games per Continent?

hayleematecko
8 - Asteroid

Love the Olympics theme!

ellen-wiegand
Alteryx
Alteryx

There is an error in the "official" solution - there have only been 29 summer games including Tokyo; 32 if you include upcoming LA, Paris, and Sydney games. There have only been 23 winter games thus far. You have to be sure to 

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get rid of duplicate year rows



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ywang7
7 - Meteor
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aluthra
8 - Asteroid

 

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Solved using trim, replace char and Find and replace

 

AmirSems_charter
7 - Meteor
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nothing to see here very simplenothing to see here very simple



AmirSems_charter
7 - Meteor

was easier to do in pandas than in Alteryx lol

SimonEvans
8 - Asteroid

Used a combination of regex and data cleanse to get the non trim solution!

 

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nickkw
5 - Atom

Here is my solution with trim and without trim

AmirSems_charter
7 - Meteor

Python tool : My Alternative uses a groupby to sum up the colums and then makes a totals column from that sumation

 

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alexnajm
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Completed!

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