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Challenge #2: Preparing Delimited Data

harrietowen30
7 - Meteor
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Jeune
7 - Meteor

Proposed solution

Mert
Alteryx
Alteryx

Here is my one.

juliabarale002
8 - Asteroid

👁️‍🗨

Surbhi02
5 - Atom

Challenge 2

Maxine
8 - Asteroid

My solution to Challenge 2

dYoast
11 - Bolide

Done

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kavivkc
6 - Meteoroid
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A bit easy and manage to solved.
stephenm0518
6 - Meteoroid
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Solution attached

AndrewPowell
8 - Asteroid
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figured a text to columns was a good starting point
used a multi field tool with the stripquotes function to remove quotes from all columns (figured this was more scalable
selected and renamed the columns
finally parsed the date to ISO format