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Challenge #45: Parsing Bureau of Labor Data

ed_hayter
12 - Quasar

Looked for similar data as the link is broken (As stated by others) There is an excel file circulating that some have used. This is what I used, seemed to be missing some information but still was a test of parsing skills.

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Multiple tables into one table

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mattnason1
9 - Comet

Had to use the excel file to make this work even the archive link people posted wasn't working.  So, not sure how close this is to the work required in the past since I'm not sure what parsing was needed.

tristank
11 - Bolide

Thanks for those who shared the excel file (Attached below)

 

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gawa
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Link was invalid so used alternative source

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gawa
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Solution attached

caltang
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Done

 

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Calvin Tang
Alteryx ACE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvintangkw/
aaenugu
6 - Meteoroid

The URL is not working. Is there any alternate URL that is available??.

 

 

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fluteman
9 - Comet

this link to data "http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/compaes.txt" is broken; so instead I used this one:  "https://www.bls.gov/web/ecec/ececqrtn.txt" 

 

I did something similar breaking the title part into sections

and then creating a table from the first dataset.

 

A lot of TextToColumns and Cleansing tools used. The TABs are a doozy!

fluteman
9 - Comet

I saw that too. I found this instead to work with - same premise; chop up a data file!

 

"https://www.bls.gov/web/ecec/ececqrtn.txt" 

Rob-Silk
8 - Asteroid

My solution below - I used the shared XLSX file version of the updated dataset

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