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Challenge #3: Running Averages

patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

I got to use my multi -field multi -row multi -column macro.


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jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Here my solution (not using Abacus tools...)

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samjohnson
7 - Meteor

I'm not very original when it comes to solving this particular problem, that's for sure.


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danfarmerTIL
6 - Meteoroid

Pretty much as most others did it, tweaked from using AVERAGE() also


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vkarthik21
8 - Asteroid

It took quite bit of time to understand why transposition was required. Once I got that the rest was easy. I used brute force method to rename columns and it is now as I look, I see that there is a transform for that too! More and more I work on Alteryx, I am falling in love with it. It's incredibly powerful to keep running portions of the code. 

 

Also what would have helped is to give more detailed example on how the 3 month average is worked out. For the first two rows, I had hard time understanding how their values have come about. I struggled a lot to work out how is it getting calculated. Some more explanation would have been good. 


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JoshKushner
12 - Quasar

Upon reading the solution, I've done something very simple in probably the most complex way (facepalm).

Anyways, my solution is attached.


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Leonam
5 - Atom

Running Averages.JPG

 

Arianna_Fuller
7 - Meteor

 

 

 


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930realm
7 - Meteor

This one took me a while to figure out why I could not match the output results. When I finally gave up and started reading the comments I realized it was because the data was mixing up 0's and nulls and unlike my SQL tools nulls are calculated to return a null.  That is an issue with our scientific data methods because nulls do not mean 0 they mean no data was collected.  As suggested by  @jdunkerley79 I will need to look more into using Abacus tools.

 

 


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AT_12
7 - Meteor

Solution Attached

 

Widgets Used:

 

- Transpose

- Cross Tab

- Multi Row Formula

- Join Multiple

 


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