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Challenge #222: Where There's a Whale There's a Way

AYXAcademy
Alteryx
Alteryx

A solution to last week’s challenge can be found hereSource: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4965690/Humpback-whale-breaches-Sydney-Harbour-sunset.htmlSource: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4965690/Humpback-whale-breaches-Sydney-Harbour-sunset.html

 

Every year whales around the world migrate from their feeding grounds to their breeding grounds. Some species travel an outstanding 12,000 miles round trip!

 

Use the data sets below to analyze migration movements for different whale species.

  • The file Whale_Migration_Data contains a list of whales whose migration patterns have been tracked from 2001-2003, and the total kilometers each whale swam on each day of their migration.
  • The file Whale_Pods contains a list of whale ids and pod ids, which indicates the pod each whale belongs to.
  • The file Whale_Species contains information about the whale species of each pod.

 

Find the total number of kilometers each pod swam for migration for each year, then find the average number of kilometers each whale in that pod swam (total kilometers / number of whales in the pod). Then, find the pod with the highest average kilometers swam per whale for each species for each year.

johnemery
11 - Bolide

Fun and quick challenge. Interesting data... too bad this isn't actual data!

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 View my solution video here:

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Blake
12 - Quasar

What is the difference between a marine biologist and a dog? 

 

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One tags a whale, the other wags a tail. 

Check out my video solution below!

 

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AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

Challenge #222 is done! Nice & quick challenge to start the week

 

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Aaron_Harter
11 - Bolide

A Whale sized data set and challenge, solved with a minnow-mum amount of tools:

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BradWerner
11 - Bolide
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PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Had a whale of a time doing this

 

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jasperlch
12 - Quasar
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dsmdavid
11 - Bolide
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Wonder how many miles does this one have...
FXW2aP
WJJW-1
7 - Meteor
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I had a whale of a time doing this