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Challenge #182: Word Sleuthing

JulioMO
9 - Comet

Here it goes. 

 

I could not match exact results.

 

In response to your question @ggruccio , I've noticed that in the output provided, there are "the", " the", "THE", "The" words, so there are words that have leading and/or trailing spaces. 

 

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Original_Yodies
8 - Asteroid

I went straight to the source and downloaded. still not matching result, but seems common to the early solutions by their descriptions.

More Regex practice.

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echuong
8 - Asteroid

Can't seem to get the same answer either....

 

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JORGE4900
8 - Asteroid

The first thing to do is to widen the field length on the input tool so that lines are not truncated. The first try all quantities match except the null value; thus, I moved the null filter after identifying the words, and all counts and percentages match.

 

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T_Willins
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar

Attached are my results.  I can tie the provided data to the results, except I excluded null results, so my percents are close, but don't tie exactly.  Spoiler is only provided data workflow; all workflows included in attachment.

Bonus #1 - Downloaded results are different as the provided data includes truncated lines that are complete in the downloaded data set.

Bonus #2 - Without opening the workflow and looking at the site, can you guess the source from the top 10 words?

Top Results of Bonus #2:

 

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hbraunius
8 - Asteroid

My solution attached.

 

It took a while for me to figure out that this was case sensitive.

TonyA
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Here's my solution. I gave up on trying to figure out exactly what assumptions were made in parsing out the words. I ignored case and all numbers and stripped out all the punctuation I could think of except single quote and backslash. 

LukeG
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
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NatSnook
8 - Asteroid

ahh - beating my head against a wall until i noticed the file had changed 🙂

dexter90
8 - Asteroid

Solution:

 

I used REGEX tool,however I am not getting sum_count equal to the actual count.

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