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Challenge #160: Diamonds R Forever

ChristineB
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

A solution to last week's challenge can be found here

 

Happiest of birthdays to those of you born in the month of April!  Did you know that the diamond is this month's birthstone?  To celebrate, analyze a dataset to count the number of diamonds that fall within a range of carat weights. 

 

The zip file below contains the file BigDiamonds.rda.  Use the R tool to read in the data to use in Designer.  You may find this article helpful for this challenge! 

 

Note: Make sure you have your Predictive tools installed!

 

 

Happy Birthday from the shiniest of diamonds...Neil Diamond.Happy Birthday from the shiniest of diamonds...Neil Diamond.

 

patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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unzip("%Engine.WorkflowDirectory%BigDiamonds.zip", exdir="%Engine.WorkflowDirectory%Data")
load("%Engine.WorkflowDirectory%Data\\BigDiamonds.Rda")
write.Alteryx(diamondsbig,1)
pasccout
8 - Asteroid

Took me some time to figure out how to read the actual content of the output and not just the name of the file but here it is!

nwhaley
5 - Atom
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Solution attached. Also quickly explored how avg. price varies between certification agencies...wow.

PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

I'm forever the R-soul.

 

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kat
12 - Quasar

Challenging!

 

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estherb47
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

The R tool was very frustrating, until I realized that my slashes were in the wrong direction. User error strikes again!

 

Then just wanted to group the carats like I found in the diamond charts, so my formula tool differs a bit from othersimage.png

 

Not entirely sure I understand what I did with the R tool, other than get it to function, so something new to learn just dropped!!!

RolandSchubert
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

First-time used the R tool and finally managed to bring the data to the workflow. Afterwards it seems easy and straightforward ...

 

danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

24 diamonds above 8 carats.  Sweet Caroline, indeed!

 

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Dan

cgoodman3
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar
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Chris
Check out my collaboration with fellow ACE Joshua Burkhow at AlterTricks.com