How to rank headers with Duplicate Values in Excel? - excel

I would like to rank the headers of the columns based on the value of each row.
Apparently I can use the LARGE function, to get top values.
But the problem here is that I have duplicate values. And when I try to use INDEX-MATCH, it will return the same header multiple times. It will not fetch the second header of duplicate score.
Refer my desired output:
I tried the solution mentioned at:
https://www.exceltip.com/lookup-formulas/vlookup-top-5-values-with-duplicate-values-using-index-match-in-excel.html
but I do not want to include randomize function.
Thanks!

As mentioned in my comment, I added a fraction of the current column, so that the ranks are distinguishable by MATCH.
Note It's an array-formula which needs to be confirmed through CTRLSHIFTENTER
=INDEX($B1:$E1,MATCH(LARGE(($B2:$E2+COLUMN($B$2:$E$2)/100),COLUMN(A1)),$B2:$E2+COLUMN($B$2:$E$2)/100,0))
Depending on the number of ranks, you can add smaller fractions, so that the ranks don't increment.

About the question is to handle members of the same ranks. Two ways of handling indexes of the same values:
Place them in order in multiple cells.
Place them in order in one cell.
Excel functions can handle certain of them, such as sorting in ascending or descending order. But others, such as getting the sequence number of a value before sorting and getting the sequence numbers. Using esProc is much easy.
A
1 …(Data pasted from Excel)
2 =A1.split#n("\t")
3 =A2.(~.psort#z())
4 =A3.(["Self     Direction","Power","Universalism","Achievement"](~))
5 =A4.concat#n("\t")
For more explanation,see http://c.raqsoft.com/article/1610327593846
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Deal with Ties when Using Index/Match

I'm currently pulling the top (5) number of numerical values from one sheet and inputting them into a different sheet. Each number is within its own column and there is a name matching that column, EX:
And so, having a tie is common with the data that I'm working with, so it nearly deprecates my formulas.
For getting the name:
=INDEX('Total Cases by Categories'!$B$18:$B$50, MATCH(LARGE('Total Cases by Categories'!$H$18:$H$50, A39),'Total Cases by Categories'!$H$18:$H$50, 0))
For getting the numerical value associated with the name:
=LARGE('Total Cases by Categories'!$H$18:$H, A39)
And so, when there are 2 people with the same numerical value associated within a category, then that person appears twice, I assume because of their position within the sheet.
So something like this happens:
So in the event of a tie, I would want to list both names that have the same amount of points instead of the first name that shows up with the duplicated value.
Any help would be appreciated!
Actually, LARGE will give you both of tied names. It's MATCH that can't look beyond the first. To the best of my knowledge there is no way around that (the difficult one being not to use MATCH). Therefore the solution is to have no ties.
This is achieved with helper columns that contain no identical numbers. This can be achieved by adding an insignificant decimal. Since you are dealing with integers, adding 0.1 would be insignificant for your purposes but 13.1 is different from 13.2. If you need to extract the "real" number from this use INT(13.2).
Using the row number to generate an insignificant decimal is popular for this purpose. In row 1 ROW()/10 will return 0.1. But in row 10 ROW()/10 will return 1.0 which isn't an insignificant number anymore. Therefore you have to work with ROW()/100 or an even larger divisor, depending upon how many rows you have. Try ROW()/10^6 - any decimal will do the tie-breaking job.
You may not like that using ROW() will list tied participants in the order in which they appear in the worksheet. The differentiating decimals can be created by any other means that doesn't create ties in itself.
Normally, the helper columns with the decimals added will be hidden. They contain a formula like =D23 + (ROW()/10000) which manages itself. You can then use that column for the MATCH function to list all participants in the order of LARGE using the helper column or the original. Just make sure that MATCH refers to the helper column.

Excel formula to sum an array of items from a lookup list

I'm trying to make my monthly transaction spreadsheet less work-intensive but I'm running up against problems outputting my category lookups as an array. Right now I have a table with all my monthly transactions and I want to create another table with monthly running totals. What I've been doing is manually summing each entry from each category, but I'd love to automate the process. Here's what I have:
=SUM(INDEX(Transactions[Out], N(IF(1,MATCH(I12,Transactions[Category],FALSE)))))
I've also tried using AGGREGATE in place of SUM but it still only returns the first value in the category. The N(IF()) was supposed to force INDEX to return all the matches as an array, but it's not working. I found that trick online, with no explanation of why it works, so I really don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?
Just in case anyone ever looks at this thread in the future, I was able to find a simpler solution to my problem once I implemented the Transactions[Category]=I12 method. SUM, itself will take an array as an argument, so all I had to do was form an array of the values I wanted to keep from Transactions[Out] range. I did this by adjusting the method Ron described above, but instead of using 1/(Transactions[Category]=I12 I used 1/IF(Transactions[Category]=I12, 1,1000) and surrounded that by a FLOOR(*resulting array*, .01) which rounded all the thousandth's down to zero and didn't yield any #DIV/0! errors.
Then! I realized that the simplest way to get the actual numbers I wanted, rather than messing with INDEX or AGGREGATE, was to multiply the range Transactions[Out] by the binary array from the IF test. Since the range is a table, I know they will always be the same size. And SUM automatically multiplies element by element and then adds for operations like this.
(The result is a "CSE" formula, which I guess isn't everyone's favorite. I'm still not 100% clear on what it means: just that it outputs data in a single cell, rather than over multiple cells. But in this context, SUM should only output a single number, so I'm not sure why I need CSE... A problem for another day!)
In your IF, the value_if_true clause needs to return an array of the desired row numbers from the array.
MATCH does not return an array of values; it only returns a single value which, with the FALSE parameter, will be the first value. That's why INDEX is only returning the first value.
One way to return an array of values:
Transactions[Category]=I12
will return an array of {TRUE,FALSE,FALSE,TRUE,...} depending on if it matches.
You can then multiply that by the Row number to get the relevant row on the worksheet.
Since you are using a table, to obtain the row number in the data body array, you have to subtract the row number of the Header row.
But now we are going to have an array which includes 0's for the non-matching entries, which is not good for us as a row number argument for the INDEX function.
So we get rid of that by using the AGGREGATE function with the ignore errors argument set after we do change the equality test to 1/(Transactions[Category]=I12) which will create DIV/0 errors for the non-matchers.
Putting it all together
=SUM(INDEX(Transactions[Out],AGGREGATE(15,6,1/(Transactions[Category]=I12)*ROW(Transactions)-ROW(Transactions[#Headers]),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&COUNTIF(Transactions[Category],$I$12))))))
You may need to enter this with CSE depending on your version of Excel.
Also, if you have a lot of these formulas, you may want to change the k argument for AGGREGATE to use the INDEX function (non-volatile) instead of the volatile INDIRECT function.
=SUM(INDEX(Transactions[Out],AGGREGATE(15,6,1/(Transactions[Category]=I12)*ROW(Transactions)-ROW(Transactions[#Headers]),ROW(INDEX($A:$A,1,1):INDEX($A:$A,COUNTIF(Transactions[Category],$I$12),1)))))
Edit
If you have Excel/O365 with dynamic arrays and the FILTER function, you can greatly simplify the above to the normally entered:
=SUM(FILTER(Transactions[Out],Transactions[Category]=I12))

How do I count all the instances where a certain number is between multiple sets of numbers?

I would like to count the number of times a specific number lies between multiple ranges.
For instance,
Specific number: 2.5 (let's say this one is in AD1)
J3=14
K3=22
L3=0
M3=6
N3=6
O3=14
P3=2
Q3=8
I need to find how many times 2.5 is between:
J3&K3
L3&M3
N3&O3
P3&Q3
The reason I would like a formula for this is because I have many "specific numbers" that there are many numbers that I need to test within the same range.
I know I can combine multiple CountIf, but the formula would be way too long.
I remember I can use Sum(CountIf("INSERTFORMULA")) but I think somehow using a combination of Sum(CountIf(Median())) will be simpler to read
SUM(Countif(MEDIAN($AD$1,J3,K3)=$AD$1,TRUE),MEDIAN($AD$1,L3,M3)=$AD$1,TRUE),MEDIAN($AD$1,N3,O3)=$AD$1,TRUE),MEDIAN($AD$1,P3,Q3)=$AD$1,TRUE))
Expected result: 2 (i.e. between L3&M3 and between P3&Q3)
Try: (Edited to correct typo)
=SUMPRODUCT(($AD$1>=INDEX(J3:Q3,1,N(IF(1,{1,3,5,7}))))*($AD$1<=INDEX(J3:Q3,1,N(IF(1,{2,4,6,8})))))*emphasized text*
The N(IF(1,{array})) is a method of returning discontinuous elements of an array using the INDEX function.
Depending on whether you want to include/exclude the bounds of the ranges when you write between, you may want to remove the equal = sign from the comparisons.
Try:
=SUMPRODUCT((J3:P3<=AD1)*(K3:Q3>=AD1))
divide your formula on two parts:
first one - just calculate MEDIAN($AD$1,J3,K3) and put it in J4 (for example), then drag and copy this formula on the all raw (so in K4 will be MEDIAN($AD$1,K3,L3), and so on)
second one - just summarize raw 4 with formulas - SUM(A4:AA4)
it takes more space on the sheet, but more simple for creation and checking.

Ranking with subsets

I'm trying to rank values and have managed to work out how to sort ties. My data looks at the total number of entries, ranks based on that and if there is a tie it looks to the next column of values to sort them out. However, I have two classes (East and West I've called them) of data within my dataset and want to rank them both separately (but stick to the rules above). So, if I had seven entries, 3 of them West and 4 of the East, I want West to have ranking 1,2,3 based on all the values that lie in that subset and East would have ranking 1,2,3,4. Can you explain what your formula is doing so I can understand how to apply your answer better in the future.
Effectively I'm asking what formula needs to go in achieve my result.
Cheers
Paul
There are a few related ways to do this, most involving SUMPRODUCT. If you don't like the solution below and would like to research other ways/explanations, try searching for "rankif".
The function looks up the Class and Value columns and, for every value in those columns, returns a TRUE or 1 if the current Class is a match AND if its Value is larger than the current Value, False or 0 if otherwise. The SUM adds up all these 1s, and the 1+ is for decoration. Remember to enter as an array formula using Ctrl+Shift+Enter before dragging down.
I used the array formula and SUM above to explain, but the following also works and might even be faster since it's not an array formula. It's the same idea, except we hijack SUMPRODUCT's ability to spit out a single value from an array.
=1+SUMPRODUCT(($A$2:$A$8=A2)*($B$2:$B$8>B2))
EDIT
To extend the rank-if, you could add more subsets to rank by multiplying more conditions:
You can also easily add tiebreakers by adding another SUMPRODUCT to treat the ties as an additional subset:
The first SUMPRODUCT is the 'base rank', while the second SUMPRODUCT is tiebreaker #1.

nested excel functions with conditional logic

Just getting started in Excel and I was working with a database extract where I need to count values only if items in another column are unique.
So- below is my starting point:
=SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIF(C3:C94735,{"Sharable Content Object Reference Model 1.2","Authored SCORM/AICC content","Authored External Web Content"}))
what i'd like to figure out is the syntax to do something like this-
=sumproduct (Countif range1 criteria..., where range2 criteria="is unique value")
Am I getting this right? The syntax is a bit confusing, and I'm not sure I've chosen the right functions for the task.
I just had to solve this same problem a week ago.
This method works even when you can't always sort on the grouping column (J in your case). If you can keep the data sorted, #MikeD 's solution will scale better.
Firstly, do you know the FREQUENCY trick for counting unique numbers? FREQUENCY is designed to create histograms. It takes two arrays, 'data' and 'bins'. It sorts 'bins', then creates an output array that's one longer than 'bins'. Then it takes each value in 'data' and determines which bin it belongs in, incrementing the output array accordingly. It returns the array. Here's the important part: If a value appears in 'bins' more than once, any 'data' value meant for that bin goes in the first occurrence. The trick is to use the same array for both 'data' and 'bins'. Think it through, and you'll see that there's one non-zero value in the output for each unique number in the input. Note that it only counts numbers.
In short, I use this:
=SUM(SIGN(FREQUENCY(<array>,<array>)))
to count unique numeric values in <array>
From this, we just need to construct arrays containing numbers where appropriate and text elsewhere.
In the example below, I'm counting unique days when the color is red and the fruit is citrus:
This is my conditional array, returning 1 or true for the rows I'm interested in:
($A$2:$A$10="red")*ISNUMBER(MATCH($B$2:$B$10,{"orange","grapefruit","lemon","lime"},0))
Note that this requires ctrl-shift-enter to be used as an array formula.
Since the value I'm grouping by for uniqueness is text (as is yours), I need to convert it to numeric. I use:
MATCH($C$2:$C$10,$C$2:$C$10,0)
Note that this also requires ctrl-shift-enter
So, this is the array of numeric values within which I'm looking for uniqueness:
IF(($A$2:$A$10="red")*ISNUMBER(MATCH($B$2:$B$10,{"orange","grapefruit","lemon","lime"},0)),MATCH($C$2:$C$10,$C$2:$C$10,0),"")
Now I plug that into my uniqueness counter:
=SUM(SIGN(FREQUENCY(<array>,<array>)))
to get:
=SUM(SIGN(FREQUENCY(
IF(($A$2:$A$10="red")*ISNUMBER(MATCH($B$2:$B$10,{"orange","grapefruit","lemon","lime"},0)),MATCH($C$2:$C$10,$C$2:$C$10,0),""),
IF(($A$2:$A$10="red")*ISNUMBER(MATCH($B$2:$B$10,{"orange","grapefruit","lemon","lime"},0)),MATCH($C$2:$C$10,$C$2:$C$10,0),"")
)))
Again, this must be entered as an array formula using ctrl-shift-enter. Replacing SUM with SUMPRODUCT will not cut it.
In your example, you'd use something like:
=SUM(SIGN(FREQUENCY(
IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH($C$3:$C$94735,{"Sharable Content Object Reference Model 1.2","Authored SCORM/AICC content","Authored External Web Content"},0)),MATCH($J$3:$J$94735,$J$3:$J$94735,0),""),
IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH($C$3:$C$94735,{"Sharable Content Object Reference Model 1.2","Authored SCORM/AICC content","Authored External Web Content"},0)),MATCH($J$3:$J$94735,$J$3:$J$94735,0),"")
)))
I'll note, though, that scaling might be a problem on data sets as large as yours. I tested it on larger data sets, and it was fairly fast on the order of 10k rows, but really slow on the order of 100k rows, such as yours. The internal arrays are plenty fast, but the FREQUENCY function slows down. I'm not sure, but I'd guess it's between O(n log n) and O(n^2) depending on how the sort is implemented.
Maybe this doesn't matter - none of this is volatile, so it'll just need to calculate once upon refreshing the data. If the column data is changing, though, this could be painful.
Asuming the source data is sorted by the key value [A], start with determining the occurence of the key column
B2: =IF(A2=A1;B1+1;1)
Next determine a group sum
C2: =SUMIF($A$2:$A$9;A2;$B$2:$B$9)
A key is unique if its group sum is exactly 1
D2: =(C2=1)
To count records which match a certain criterium AND are unique, include column D in a =IF(AND(D2, [yourcondition];1;0) and sum this column
Another option is to asume a key unique within a sorted list if it is unequal to both its predecessor and successor, so you could find the unique records like
E2: =AND(A2<>A1;A2<>A3)
G2: =IF(AND(E2;F2="this");1;0)
E and G can of course be combined into one single formula (not sure though if that helps ...)
G2(2): =IF(AND(AND(A2<>A1;A2<>A3);F2="this");1;0)
resolving unnecessarily nested AND's:
G2(3): =IF(AND(A2<>A1;A2<>A3;F2="this");1;0)
all formulas in row 2 should be copied down to the end of the list

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