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Challenge #2: Preparing Delimited Data

ADovhulia
Alteryx
Alteryx
 
edgarl
8 - Asteroid
Spoiler
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Per
11 - Bolide

My shot

Spoiler
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mikeprice17
8 - Asteroid

Text to columns based on the comma, convert the date, and rename columns.

Mitrea32
5 - Atom

Solution

 

 

Spoiler

First text-to-column to separate by comma delimiter, then data cleansing to remove extraneous punctuation, then DateTime to convert into the proper date format and finally a Select tool to rename the columns

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rmassambane
11 - Bolide
 
rachelglascock
5 - Atom
Spoiler
Solved this problem! See below with annotations:
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dholle1958A
7 - Meteor

Challenge 2 completed

chrisrayner
8 - Asteroid

Complete

AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

My solution