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Challenge #132: When Will Community Hit 1,000,000 Posts?

gawa
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

As per my prediction, time has not come yet...correct?

mithily
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not hard
daiphuongngo
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RWvanLeeuwen
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retaking this to prep for the expert exam

 

it seems I calculated the moment in time when 1 million posts were created after excluding the 2 years of training data (lol)

 

please do not mind that stupidity unless you plan to borrow logic from me

 

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olga_strubbe
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This was a neat challenge, gave me a deeper dive into the Time Series tools and actually helped to better understand them, finally! :)

I added a Date field by converting Year & Month string types to match the solution format. 

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Got it! Attached is the solution

 

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josedlr00
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Good Challenge Using Time Series

Rob-Silk
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Solution attached below:

 

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tristank
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Took me a second to get the logic right and realize I needed to do a running total to make it all dynamic but good challenge!

 

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JoshuaM
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Seeing as we have passed the calendar date, was this milestone reached ?

 

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