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Challenge #36: Data Cleansing Extract Authors

danielhoge
8 - Asteroid
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99tyler99
7 - Meteor

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afnfyz
8 - Asteroid

I am getting more and more comfortable with the crosstab and transpose tools!

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Carolyn
9 - Comet

Solved - this was a good one 

 

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Tofel
8 - Asteroid
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AndrewDMerrill
13 - Pulsar

Simple but useful problem

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sknman92
8 - Asteroid

solution attached!

Rob-Silk
8 - Asteroid

My solution below:

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fluteman
8 - Asteroid

This one required some formatting. You need to determine each block of information as its own Unique ID; You also need to figure out which rows in a given block pertain to a given book variable indicated by AB-; TI- etc. Watch out for paragraphs within the TI and AB what contain words with a -, these will throw off the formatting.

 

Then you pair your unique ID with the actual PMID;

Filter on FAU.

 

I used summarize by concatenate by ";" and then text to columns (30) splitting this cell. 

 

As a check I measured how many authors were against each book. there's a book with 264 authors; so I capped my columns at 30 and thought that was the gist of this exercise!

jennifer_owens
8 - Asteroid

attached!