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Challenge #35: Data Cleansing Practice

amcollen
7 - Meteor

Fun stuff!

namrad
5 - Atom

Attaching my solution

Vikash_kumar
8 - Asteroid

Solution attached

Mattyb21
6 - Meteoroid

Solution attached 

Guillaume_G
8 - Asteroid

Here you go !!

Rohit_G13
7 - Meteor

Good exercise to practice simple ways to clean and standardize data

 

Regards

Rohit Govind

WouterWelman
7 - Meteor

My Solution

KilianL
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

My take on this challenge:

 

Functions used:

 

 

Spoiler

TrimLeft(String,y)

TrimRight(String,y)

iif(Length([Safety Code])=6,'SC'+[Safety Code],left([Safety Code],8))

 

DavidLane
8 - Asteroid

Though it is possible to use the data cleansing tool for some of these steps, I have found it is much faster in terms of runtime to use a specfic formula for the job.

Spoiler
DavidLane_0-1591109813866.png

 

Oren_Soloman
8 - Asteroid

Challenge Submission