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Challenge #240: Every Vote Counts!

AYXAcademy
Alteryx
Alteryx

A solution to last week's challenge can be found hereRCV.png

 

This week's challenge was submitted by @AShapiro  - Thanks for your contribution!

 

What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream? Hard to choose just one? With ranked choice voting (RCV), you don’t have to! With RCV, you can rank your favorites in order of choice.

For this week’s challenge, we have the results of a Favorite Flavors of Ice Cream poll. Build a workflow to conduct a RCV to find the voters’ favorite flavor and the total number of voting rounds. If a flavor receives more than half of the first choices, that flavor wins. If not, the flavor with the fewest first choice votes is eliminated. For voters who picked that flavor as their “Number 1”, their votes shift to their next choice. The process continues until a flavor has more than half the votes. Click here for a video explanation of RCV.

Aaron_Harter
11 - Bolide

Great challenge, go VOTE!

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(edit 11/02 11:00 CT) video of solution overview:

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Greg_Murray
12 - Quasar

Go vote everyone! 

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dsmdavid
11 - Bolide

If only all the elections were as undivisive as this one...


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Jonathan-Sherman
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Challenge 240 is done! I took an iterative macro approach as it made the most sense to me...

 

Workflow:

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Iterative Macro:

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phottovy
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

Vote!

 

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JennyMartin
9 - Comet
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Fun topic, takes me back to my undergrad dissertation! My iterative macro skills were a bit rusty so I am very grateful for the challenge! Video solution here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANmJLJYqVHw&list=PL18SpOXDj-KMUD4YwWC5vZaUsIa7drxNZ&index=44

Find the challenge here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Weekly-Challenge/Challenge-240-Every-Vote-Counts/td-p/659897
AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

My solution for challenge #240 with an iterative macro approach. Go vote and buy yourselves a Chocolate ice-cream on your way home.

 

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ggruccio
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Since I knew there were only a few rounds, I created simple logic that I copied over and over until it got to 50%.

 

Go out and vote!

 

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

 

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