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Challenge #495: Accounting Haunted House

EKasminsky
9 - Comet
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Forgot to screenshot.

Daniel_Homola
8 - Asteroid

Without the bonus

JIACHANG_XU
5 - Atom

Bonus to be done

 

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Reesetrain2
9 - Comet
9 - Comet

All,

 

I used the optimization tool for the bonus part, as it gave me a good score, but not as high as the solution.

-Never the less, it was a great introduction to the Optimization tool vice Macros.

-Please tell me what you think.

Matt

@AYXAcademy   @griffinwelsh

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Tj01144
5 - Atom

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chanivan
7 - Meteor

@griffinwelsh as an accountant, this was the scariest workflow I've ever created 😱. Fun way to learn the optimize tool

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RuWa
6 - Meteoroid

All results match except for 'fear of regulatory non-compliance' which is 1,802 not 1,807 as per the answer. Can someone help me understand what I am doing wrong?

 

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jtmoll
7 - Meteor

@RuWa The issue with your result for "Fear of regulatory non-compliance" is your multi-row formula and you kind of got lucky there weren't more issues since your formula looks at the prior fields value regardless of Fear. 

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This is the result that caught up to you,

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Your formula: iif(isnull([Fear Intensity]),[Row-1:Median Intensity per Fear],[Fear Intensity])
Corrected formula: IIF(ISNULL([Fear Intensity]), [Median Intensity per Fear], [Fear Intensity]) no need to use multi-row formula

 

jtmoll
7 - Meteor

Decided to use Python for the bonus objective

 

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kelsey_kincaid
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

Excited to tackle the bonus part at a later date! 

 

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