Challenge No. 153: The table includes two columns, From and To, where each row represents a range of dates.
Solved using:Excel (DROP, HSTACK, IF), Google Sheets, Power Query (Table.Group), Python, Python in Excel, and R.
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Eight Queens Puzzle!
Challenge No. 150: Theeight-queenss puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten each other; thus, a solution requires that no two queens share the same row, column, or diagonal.
Solved using:Excel (DROP, IF, LAMBDA), Google Sheets, Power Query (List.Combine, List.Transform), and Python in Excel.
Extract From Text! Part 3
Challenge No. 149: Extract texts between and pair of the bellow characters.
Solved using:Excel (LAMBDA, LET, MAP), Google Sheets, Power Query (Table.AddColumn), Python, Python in Excel, and R.
Filter Dates!
Challenge No. 148: For each customer, filter their first, last, and middle transactions from the provided “transactions” table.
Solved using:Excel (CHOOSEROWS, DROP, FILTER), Google Sheets, Power Query (Table.Combine, Table.Group), Python, Python in Excel, and R.
Table Transformation! Part 16
Challenge No. 147: Transform the question structure into the result structure.
Solved using:Excel (FILTER, HSTACK, IF), Google Sheets, Power Query (List.Skip, List.Split, Table.AddColumn), Python, Python in Excel, R, and VBA.
Column Splitting! Part 2
Challenge No. 146: Split the IDs from the beginning of the text up to the “|” character in each occurrence of “|”.
Solved using:Excel (IFNA, LAMBDA, LEN), Google Sheets, Power Query (List.Transform, Text.Combine, Text.Split), Python, Python in Excel, R, and VBA.
Length Of Pattern!
Challenge No. 145: Find the largest length of occurrences of the “++-” pattern across the test IDs for each product.
Solved using:Excel (CONCAT, GROUPBY, LAMBDA), Google Sheets, Power Query (List.Transform, Text.Combine, Table.AddColumn), Python, Python in Excel, and R.
First Date Of Months!
Challenge No. 144: From the provided “transactions” table, filter the first transaction for each.
Solved using:Excel (DROP, FILTER, LAMBDA), Google Sheets, Power Query (Date.Month, Table.AddColumn, Table.Group), Python, Python in Excel, and R.
Custom Grouping! Part 9
Challenge No. 143: Groups the sales values every week starting from Friday days starting from 1/1/2024.
Solved using:Excel (GROUPBY, LAMBDA, LET), Google Sheets, Power Query (Table.Group, Date.WeekOfYear, Table.AddColumn), Python, Python in Excel, and R.
Table Transformation! Part 15
Challenge No. 142: The Question table contains information about the fingerprinting times for various personnel when entering the company.
Solved using:Excel (DROP, HSTACK, IF), Google Sheets, Power Query (Table.AddColumn, Table.Group, Table.Pivot), Python, Python in Excel, and R.