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Challenge #33: Reshaping Nielsen Data

Verakso
Bólido

Even though I have seen worse Nielsen Data than this, then this was quite a challenge to get the numbers

 

Spoiler
In hindsigt I can see that I have made to many assumptions, and hence not made this flexible enough.


The WorkflowThe Workflow

Afterwards (when I peeked at the solutions) I could see that this is slightly obsessive. If I had done the ContentName renaming before the join, then I could have saved the select (and the Auto Field) and the just changed the naming and data types in the Union.

Still on my way to Lhotse Face

/Verakso

RobertoEstrada
Asteroide
 
RobertoEstrada
Asteroide

My solution

Vidya26
Asteroide

This would have been a lot easier if I knew Regex!!

wdavis
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Used Select records to initially isolate. Didn't come up with a clever way to rename the fields that wasn't just renaming them in the join!

cgoodman
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus
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Chris
Check out my collaboration with fellow ACE Joshua Burkhow at AlterTricks.com
dillon_bok
Asteroide
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ChrisMelck
Asteroide

Need to learn about use Reg matching in the filter as suggested in the solution. My answer was different

joemkcarr
Asteroide
 
Hannah_Lissaman
Bólido

It took me far too long to get to grips with what the original data file was showing!

 

Here's my solution