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Challenge #2: Preparing Delimited Data

danlaw
メテオロイド

Interesting solution. Much simpler than I used

eldentist
メテオール

✔️

N1colas11
メテオロイド

Sweet!

josephmzhang
メテオール
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Nanneke
アトム

Great starter!

Heinrich_Preuß
アステロイド
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FionaRyanWMT
アトム
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Screenshot Workflow Challenge 2.jpg

 Used Text to Columns followed by strip quotes function, parsed the date then dropped an renamed columns using the select tool.

Fun.

surajaha
アトム

My key takeaways from this challenge

1.Learnt to Trim Characters from the Dataset 

2.Learnt to convert Date Format

 

VizChic
ボリード

Example only, not solution - demo.

HugoT
メテオロイド

Two solutions. Thanks.