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What I want to achieve: Find the city where my tv ads have the best performance (high volume of signups at a lower cost).
What I am doing: In order to see the best combination of the metrics, I attributed a score for each metric column. Then, I sum all the scores (column M). The highest score is the city with the best performance.
What I would like to do: To automate the score columns. Is the a way to make those scores with formulas or code? (the score goes from 1 to [number of lines]). Also, I'd love to know if theres a better way to make this correlation.
If it's a regular table, you can use RANK().
So, add a column like "rank" to your table.
and put this into the first row under "rank":
=RANK([#[Total Score]];[Total Score];0)
It basically takes the total score of the current row, and checks it's ranking in the whole "total score"-column. The zero is to give the highest value the lowest rank.
Have fun! ^_^
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New to spotfire here and have a question:
I need to rank people based on a few different criteria.
"Start_date" is the most important. If there is a tie for "start_date" I want to rank by "Age" and if there is still a tie because they started the same day and are the same age I want to then look at badge number as the final tie breaker.
All the RANK() function in spotfire produce a numeric ranking and tie breakers dont seem to be based on anything beyond min, max average.
Any help would be apprecaited!!
I mocked up some data:
I then created the following column:
rank(Concatenate([Start Date],[Age],[Bnumber]),"asc") as [Rank]
If I understand corectly, this should solve your needs. The first person has been there the longest, and wins the tie break based on age and then badge number. Whether age/badge number being the lowest or highest you did not specify. It then iterates until the last person has been there the shortest.
So I am trying to calculate the average cost of On-Hand goods in this example. The goal of this would be to determine the overall cost of goods by department. This would be achieved arithmetically by taking the average cost of the good and multiplying it by the number of goods on hand for that item, and then repeating for each item. I would then want to add items from the same numerical departments to get a department item cost. Is there a way to do this within a single function in excel? So far I have:
=IF($B$2:$B$17=F2,SUMPRODUCT($C$2:$C$17,$D$2:$D$17),"null")
but it is returning an invalid output.
For Cell J2, the output I would want to look for is: $74093.80
The reason I want to do this by function is because I have a spreadsheet with over 76,000 items and 19 different departments on it and need to calculate the Average Inventory Cost of each Department.
Thank you in advance!
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Put the test inside the SUMPRODUCT():
=SUMPRODUCT(--(B$2:$B$17=F2),$C$2:$C$17,$D$2:$D$17)
I have got 1500 rows of travels. In column A I have got total time on travel, in column B total km driven. In column C I did calculation on the average speed of specific travel. Whats the best way to calculate the average speed of all travels? The lengths are from 0 to 20 kms approx, time always shorter than one hour.
First I eliminated all travels shorter than 2 km then
I managed to do a frequency table and have written frequencies of speeds in 0-5,5-10,... km/h. Now I can do a histogram, but should I eliminate more data or how to approach this problem?
In another cell enter:
=SUM(B:B)/SUM(A:A)
A common error would be to try to average the values in column C.
it depends on your data. if it is statistics, don't throw data away, use them.
you have column A for travel time, and column B for travle distance. using this two column you can find the total average speed like what Gary's student suggest i.e. SUM(B:B)/SUM(A:A).
you also have column C the average speed for each travel, you can use this two counter check. simply do SUMPRODUCT(A:A,C:C), you should find the result equals to SUM(B:B). if the results match, then i'll say "ok i'm satisfied with my calculation".
I am looking for some help regarding ranking. My spreadsheet has columns labeled as follows:
Tickers
P/E Rate of Change
P/B Rate of Change
Dividend Yield Rate of Change
P/Sales Rate of Change
I am looking to come up with a composite ranking that takes into account a tickers relative rank within each rate of change category. I tried this first by creating an additional 4 columns and using the formula as follows:
IFERROR(RANK(D4,$D:$D,1),"")
I believe this gives me a rank for the corresponding rate of change. However, for those cells that have either a blank or an error I want to use a median in calculating the tickers rank. I was then going to sum the ranks in another column to come up with my final ranking but that doesn't seem to be calculating correctly as I have blank rows returning rankings that don't make sense.
I think you are almost there.
For one column I would change what you have to
=IFERROR(RANK(D4,$D:$D,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
Then simply expand to add all ranks together
=IFERROR(RANK(A4,$A:$A,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
+IFERROR(RANK(B4,$B:$B,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
+IFERROR(RANK(C4,$C:$C,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
+IFERROR(RANK(D4,$D:$D,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
+IFERROR(RANK(E4,$E:$E,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
To avoid potentially large numbers you could use an average (same resulting rank, but potentially easier to understand) by slightly changing the formula to:
=(IFERROR(RANK(A4,$A:$A,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
+IFERROR(RANK(B4,$B:$B,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
+IFERROR(RANK(C4,$C:$C,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
+IFERROR(RANK(D4,$D:$D,1),MEDIAN($D:$D))
+IFERROR(RANK(E4,$E:$E,1),MEDIAN($D:$D)))/5
I run a small golf eclectic with excel. One of the things we have is a points system. I would like to get the 5 highest points scored over the season and have them ranked from 1 (being the highest points scored) to 5.
My knowledge of excel "sums" goes only a wee bit further than add and subtract.
Thanks!
If you don't want to change the order that they are presently in you can use the LARGE function. It returns the kth largest value.
Below is a great formula, if you drag it down it will automatically get the second, third and nth largest value from a table of data (in this example the data is between A1 to A10).
=LARGE(A1:A10,ROW(A1)-ROW($A$1)+1)
You can then match the values with names or corresponding data from the tables using the MATCH and INDEX functions. The example below would fetch the name for each value from the second column.
=INDEX($A$1:$B$10,MATCH(cell reference with score or value,$A$1:$B$10,2))
Play around with these formulas, they are very convenient for data m
If you have a column containing the scores, you could add a filter (Data->Filter I think) and sort descending.
Though, if you just have rows that are something like [Date][Person][Score] you'll need to go to another sheet and SUM the scores for each person then sort that... Unfortunately my Excel skills aren't up to par to pull a score for each person like that.
Given a list of numbers in A1 to A10, you can work out their 'Rank' relative to each other by using 'RANK'.
e.g.
RANK(A1,A1:A6,0)
RANK(cell, list of cells to check against, order)
For order, 0 = descending.
From there you can work out which one is first pragmatically.
If you have Excel 2007,
Check that your data is continuous, with no blank rows or columns. Click on your scores and then select 'Data - Filter'
Using the dropdown that the filter creates at the top of your scores column and select 'Number filters - Top ten'
A 'Top ten Autofilter' dialog will be displayed, reduce the show 10 to 5 and then click on OK.
For earlier versions of Excel add a RANK formula in a new column. Be careful as the scores need to be sorted, usually into descending order. If there are any ties, they will be given the same ranking number and the subsequent rank number will be incremented by the number of ties. (E.g. If there are two scores of 2, ranked as 5. The next score will be ranked as 7, not 6)
If you want to use the LARGE Function as described above, make sure you put the same range in the list for each of the LARGE functions. That is, change =LARGE(A1:A10,ROW(A1)-ROW($A$1)+1) to =LARGE(A$1:A$10,ROW(A1)-ROW($A$1)+1) or you will get some strange incorrect results