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Challenge #495: Accounting Haunted House

Shelbey
Alteryx
Alteryx

Took on the bonus challenge... will forever be haunted by my 7x cartesian join, but it works 👻🏚

 

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mouna_belaid
8 - Asteroid
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jrlindem
12 - Quasar

A fun and festive challenge.  Just tackling the main task for now.

 

Good skills to know being used in this exercise.  Gap-filling missing values while avoiding the skewing of results is common in financial-based reporting where data can be incomplete.  I rather enjoyed leveraging the median-based technique to negate missing values.

 

Here's my solution:

 

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alineruizcampos
8 - Asteroid

Couldn't download the optimization tool so worked around it with embedded iterative macros! Certainly overcomplicating things but it works! 👻

 

 

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AncientPandaman
13 - Pulsar

i went to deep for optimization....

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i optimise the replace null by get the median and count null in summarise

just add [count_null]*[median] to the total.
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bonus

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using my own macro for combination. wonder why is not work for optional input in version 2023.2

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Yoshiro_Fujimori
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

My solution.

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Bonus Task

I could not match the result exactly with the expected output.
Expected Equal Tool
Field [Set] --- I could not figure out what it means.
Field [Concat_Trigger Description] and [Proprosal] --- It looks OK, but Expect Equal Tool did not match.

As the Optimization tool works, I take this as "done".
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RebekaMazuchova
8 - Asteroid

:)

Imaizumi
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution and bonus.

 

Bonus is without macro and optimization tool if those are not possible to use. Also made sure that appending the data did not make the cache files close to Gigabytes.

 

Solution

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Bonus

First calculate the maximum possible records

Second append only recordsID together

Blend to filter only maximum possible records and then merge the information to find the solution

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jackhunter2905
7 - Meteor

Could'nt do the bonus

AainaAggarwal17
5 - Atom
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