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Challenge #84: Map Hurricane Harvey's Storm Evolution

Xiaoqi
7 - Meteor
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SueDonim
8 - Asteroid

The duplicate bit was a bit of a challenge, but I kluged my way through it.

 

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Process:
- Create DateTime field to ensure proper sorting
- Sort by date time
- Create Segment Number based on StormType
Lower Thread....
- Identify new segments otherwise Segment Number to Null()
- Renumber new segments to prior Segment Number (i.e. subtract 1)
- Filter null records
- Skip first record
- Remove un-needed fields
Join threads....
- Union the two threads
- Group by Segment Number and Stormtype and calculate average intensity (and carry through points)
- Remove duplicated record (happens as moved through three groups consecutively - a bit of a cheat, I know....)
- Rename fields and clean-up



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EW
11 - Bolide

Getting the path split into separate lines like the output was tricky!  The averages were a little squirrely too, but this matches the output.  

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I used a bunch of multi row tools, interested to see cleaner methods!
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Dominik2806
8 - Asteroid

Quite tricky if you want to bridge the gaps in the lines...

Jonathan-Sherman
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Took me a long time to work out how to get this one to match the output perfectly!

 

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rmassambane
10 - Fireball
 
delilah
8 - Asteroid
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Add some steps to get rid of the gaps between segment lines. Still there is slight difference in average intensity and have no no idea why.  

ShawnTM
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution. Some of my averages differ from whats in the example output.

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ChuyVBabs
8 - Asteroid

How about average intensity as a function of total time duration along a storm type segment?

Didn't notice if anybody else

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built the initial line segments using the spatial functions inside the Multi-Row formula tool, then defined/assigned each line to a parent segment which served as summarize calculation bounds for Intensity.  

 

danicahui
8 - Asteroid
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