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Challenge #85: How Did Tara Place in Competition?

BenMoss
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Ha, thanks @JoeM!

Never stop learning!

JoeM
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

The solution is posted!

Natasha
9 - Comet

Solution attached. Btw @JoeM it looks like you attached the start file twice instead of the solution.

 

 

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JoeM
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Thanks @Natasha! Updated!

NicoleJohnson
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

My solution!

 

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My results gave Tara 11th place overall, and 54th in the Interval event. First, I transposed the data and then isolated Tara & Carisa to calculate the time that Tara should have had for the Interval event. I joined the data back together, and then sorted by event & used a multi-row tool to determine what the ranks should be with the addition of the Tara's new time for Interval.I then joined that information to a list of Bib#'s summarized by only those with 4 timed events. Finally, I calculated the average rank per Bib# to determine Tara's final ranking.

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samjohnson
7 - Meteor

I don't trust authority so I eliminated the initial rankings of each event and re-calculated them ;)

 

My solution is longer because I wanted to take a more step-by-step approach, and I didn't try to automatically calculate Tara's Interval time; I set it manually. (This hurt me to do this, but there's no harm as we're not curing cancer, right?)

 

Finally, after re-calculating all of the event rankings I took the overall average of those ranks as a Double and sorted them and added another record ID, which became the final place for each competitor. I finished by highlighting Tara's entire record.

 

Fun challenge.

LordNeilLord
15 - Aurora

I initially got a rank of 13, so I checked and double checked the workflow but couldn't find the issue! After several moments of head scratching...I finally realised that the times were in mm:ss.ms and not hh:mm.ss....a few quick formula changes and I got the correct result.

 

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jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

That was fun... Not sure I've got the most efficient solution

 

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SeanAdams
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

I feel your pain Tara - timekeeping fail is very emotionally traumatic!

@Joe_Mako - very impressive solution!

 

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robcarroll
7 - Meteor

Done!