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Challenge #296: Breaking News - Headlines and Keywords

SylviaP
Moderator
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Weekly Challenge Image 296.pngHi everyone!

 

A solution to last week’s challenge can be found here.

 

In this weekly challenge, you will find a dataset containing the New York Times articles from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020.

 

Your first task is to identify which day of the week has the highest number of sports articles published.

 

Your second task is to identify how many times the word "Football" or "football" is in the headline or keywords on the day of the week that has the highest number of sports articles published.

 

As a final result, you have to write a statement similar to this: The word football appears ____ times in sports articles published on _____.

 

BONUS!

Forecast in what future month articles will surpass the 20 million comments milestone using the high end of the 70% confidence interval. (HINT: Consider a cumulative sum for all posts since 2020)

 

For the bonus, you will need to Download and Install Predictive tools [https://help.alteryx.com/20213/designer/download-and-use-predictive-tools]. Also, don’t worry if your output it’s slightly different from the output here. What is important is to understand the results.

 

Good luck!!

Sylvia
Aaron_Harter
11 - Bolide

Lots of Monday morning quarterbacks in the news!

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Task 1 and 2 below,

 

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alexnajm
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Task 1 and 2 below, bonus perhaps to follow...

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Mine takes into account if the data updates and the "most published day" changes! 

 

 

binuacs
20 - Arcturus
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AkimasaKajitani
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

My solution.

 

I completed the Bonus challenge, but the value is a little different.

 

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rafaaelgeo
6 - Meteoroid
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Spalders
8 - Asteroid

Tasks 1 & 2 without predictions

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Tony_Castillo
9 - Comet

Did not do the Bonus

 

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