I am retired so I have a lot of free time on my hands so I like playing the greyhounds. Using Excel I attempted to help myself save time by sorting out two columns at a time (Post - B-SPD) etc, because you have to sort some low and some high. The columns not marked Post are formula columns =abs(a3) etc. but when I try to sort the Post columns will sort, but the column I try to sort with it does not sort and match the post number it is assigned to.
Can this be done or does the =ABS formula prevent it. Plus even using =ABS some of the number are negative but the -minus sign does not appear. I have tried everything using numbers, using currency, using general, but nothing works. One person sent me to control panel to the Clock, Language, and Region settings. go additional setting and set your negative setting there. But that would not let the -minus sign show up on negative numbers either.
Is any of the above even possible?
POST B-SPD POST A-SPD POST 8TH POST L-SPD POST A-FIN
1 31.43 1 31.84 1 0 1 3 1 5.83
2 31.43 2 31.67 2 35.14 2 0 2 4.67
3 31.79 3 31.9 3 59.11 3 6 3 5.67
4 31.32 4 31.73 4 65.5 4 3 4 3.83
5 31.47 5 31.68 5 29.71 5 4 5 3.33
6 31.76 6 32.18 6 100 6 9 6 5.01
7 31.48 7 31.99 7 41.13 7 1 7 5.67
8 31.69 8 31.99 8 75.79 8 6 8 4.83
LOW LOW HIGH HIGH LOW
The requirement is not clear but use of ABS should not cause sorting issues. =ABS (for absolute) function is to strip out minus signs (so seems to be working properly).
OP may be advised to delete all but one of the POST columns, select headers and data (not including 'LOW' or 'HIGH') and Insert > Tables - Table, check My table has headers, OK, then use the filter buttons to choose whether to Sort Smallest to Largest or Sort Largest to Smallest for whichever attribute is to be ordered (the other columns will 'follow suit'). The filter button will show which button is determining the ordering and whether ascending or descending (eg table below is sorted descending on '8TH'):
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I have a list of part numbers that are used in 4 different top level assemblies. The parts can be used in 1 to 4 of the top level assemblies. I'm trying to write a formula that will count how many unique top level assemblies a part number occurs in. I had previously written a formula that worked, but it uses UNIQUE and FILTER, and my coworkers don't have Excel 365, so those formulas aren't supported for them. I've been trying to come up with a workaround and would really appreciate any help :)
I have an example (I can't provide any real data) section of our spreadsheet and an image of the formula I had that was working
Top Level Assy
Part Number
Qty
Number of times used
02554
01622
4
3
89975
01622
4
3
95665
01622
4
3
98886
01723
4
1
98886
01723
10
1
98886
01723
4
1
02554
01734
4
3
89975
01734
4
3
95665
01734
4
3
02554
01740
6
3
89975
01740
6
3
95665
01740
6
3
02554
01746
5
3
89975
01746
5
3
95665
01746
5
3
02554
01835
2
3
89975
01835
2
3
95665
01835
2
3
02554
51205
4
3
=SUM(--(LEN(UNIQUE(FILTER(A:A, C:C=C2, "")))>0))
Picture of the excel sheet
Picture of working formula
Use the following formula in row 2: =SUMPRODUCT(--(FREQUENCY(IF($B$2:$B$20=$B2,$A$2:$A$20),$A$2:$A$20)>0))
*I think it doesn't require ctrl+shift-enter in older Excel versions, since SUMPRODUCT is an array formula by default.
The formula checks the frequency of values in column A where column B matches the value in the current row. It returns the count per unique value meeting the condition. Wrapping it in -- & >0 returns 1 for each unique value. SUMPRODUCT sums them.
Edit:
I realized that the top level assembly values are actual text, not numeric values. In that case (since it's all numeric values stored as text) you can use this workaround:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(FREQUENCY(IF($B$2:$B$20=$B2,--($A$2:$A$20)),--($A$2:$A$20))>0))
It converts the text to numbers.
Sidenotes to this workaround:
If any value would contain a character other than numeric it will not get counted.
If you have both values like 02554 and 2554 they'll both get converted to 2554 and counted likewise.
Edit 2:
For text use the following:
=SUMPRODUCT(IF($B$2:$B$20=$B2, 1/(COUNTIFS($B$2:$B$20, $B2, $A$2:$A$20, $A$2:$A$20)), 0))
I've been having trouble adding some features to my dashboard. My current formula is returning N/A (simple vloopup with MAX).
My Goal:
A person who has been a client for the most amount of days is the
favourite client
If two or more clients have been a client for the same amount of
days, pick the one higher up on the column, or pick one randomly (as long as it's not an error)
DATA:
A B
1 DAYS CLIENT
2 4 Josh
3 4 Sam
4 6 Aya
5 2 Zaptos
6 12 Goku
7 12 Gandalf
8 11 Tim
9
So the output should be Goku as he and Gandalf have been clients for the longest, but Goku is higher up in the column than Gandalf.
I would also be happy if the output was randomly selected between Goku and Gandalf.
Thanks.
=INDEX($B$2:$B$8,MATCH(MAX($A$2:$A$8),$A$2:$A$8,0))
This will return the first matching client - Goku in your example.
Shorter:
=VLOOKUP(MAX(A:A),A:B,2,0)
I have been trying to create a windrose that displays the occurence of multiple wind speeds and their respective wind direction. Using other very helpful posts on here I've gotten pretty close to what I want. There is just one thing I can't seem to fix.
As you can see in the figure below the graph starts at 0 degrees while I want the "North" wind direction to start at -11,25 (or +348,75) degrees.
Currently the radial axis labels are added using a pie chart while the rest of the data is plotted in a filled radar chart. It is easy to rotate the pie chart but I can't seem to find a similar function for rotating the radar chart. Any help would be much appreciated. The excel file is attached beneath the figure.
EDIT: Locked excel file against editing
Excel file
I haven't fully digested the netiquette of this website and not sure if it is a good idea to try giving you an answer 6+ months after you posted. Also hope that by this time you found an answer.
If not, this link should be of help:
https://superuser.com/questions/687036/how-to-make-a-pie-radar-chart
In the example the creator made one field for each degree and started the first series, which would be equivalent to your north at 0°. However nothing prevents you from starting at 348.
I have not tested but I also think that nothing prevents you from adding even more "resolution", e.g. half-degree steps.. or even more to your discretion.
EDIT: following L.Guthardt's feedback.
In order to provide you an answer I opted to simplify your table and chart. Mostly for convenience, but also because I struggle to get a full understanding of the original "architecture". Still, the solution should work at any level and is based on two key elements:
first you will have to double the number of rows from 16 to 32 (thus each quadrant being repeated two times, e.g. ... nne - nne - ne - ne...)
second, you have to start and finish with N as showcased here
Direction Cat6
N 6
NNE 4 4
NNE 6
NE 4 4
NE 6
ENE 4 4
ENE 6
E 4 4
E 6
ESE 4 4
ESE 6
SE 4 4
SE 6
SSE 4 4
SSE 6
S 4 4
S 6
SSW 4 4
SSW 6
SW 4 4
SW 6
WSW 4 4
WSW 6
W 4 4
W 6
WNW 4 4
WNW 6
NW 4 4
NW 6
NNW 4 4
NNW 6
N 4 4
which will generate
for the pie chart I used a separate range with alternate gaps in the labels
Direction Dummy
N 1
1
NNE 1
1
NE 1
1
ENE 1
1
E 1
1
ESE 1
1
SE 1
1
SSE 1
1
S 1
1
SSW 1
1
SW 1
1
WSW 1
1
W 1
1
WNW 1
1
NW 1
1
NNW 1
1
Rotating radar charts in Excel can be achieved by building a separate table for plotting the chart. It would have three columns:
Column A: New categories
Column B: Original categories (calculated from A)
Column C: Original data using VLOOKUP() on B
The chart will be plotted using columns B and C. Column B category numbers are offset by the desired number of categories.
If the chart needs to be rotated by other than multiples of a category degree (e.g., 30 degrees for 12 categories), you would need to add rows in between (corresponding to the amount of rotation in relation to the category degree). For example, to rotate a 12-category radar chart by multiples of 15 degrees, one extra row is needed in-between each original category row (to create 24 new categories). In this case, you would need to calculate the intermediate values by linearly interpolating between actual data points.
The trick is that blank category values are not displayed on the chart and the values for these categories blend in smoothly with the real data (because they are interpolated).
I will post an example if the above is not clear enough.
P.S. I cannot look at your new Excel file (in Answers) because it exceeds 5 MB (see screenshot 1).
So I did keep working on this problem and the best solution I've come up with (while using Microsoft Excel) looks as follows:
Currently, the number of sectors in the plot is fixed at 16. If I want to make this number variable, the table required for the plot data requires a very large amount of lookup functions which make the spreadsheet too slow to work with.
I've uploaded the new Excel file here to take a look at:
Excel file
I'm looking for a way to compare multiple rows with data to each other, trying to find the best possible match. Each number in every column must be an approximately match the other numbers in the same column.
Example:
Customer #1: 1 5 10 9 7 7 8 2 3
Customer #2: 10 5 9 3 5 7 4 3 2
Customer #3: 1 4 10 9 8 7 6 2 2
Customer #4: 9 5 6 7 2 1 10 5 6
In this example customer #1 and #3 is quite similar, and I need to find a way to highlight or sort the rows so I can easily find the best match.
I've tried using conditional formatting to highlight the numbers that are the similar, but that is quite confusing, because the amount of data is quite big.
Any ideas of how I could solve this?
Thanks!
The following formula entered in (say) L1 and pulled down gives the best match with the current row based on the sum of the absolute differences between corresponding cells:-
=MIN(IF(ROW($C$1:$K$4)<>ROW(),(MMULT(ABS($C1:$K1-$C$1:$K$4),TRANSPOSE(COLUMN($C$1:$K$4))^0))))
It is an array formula and must be entered with CtrlShiftEnter.
You can then sort on column L to bring the customers with lowest similarity scores to the top or use conditional formatting to highlight rows with a certain similarity value.
EDIT
If you wanted to penalise large differences in individual columns more heavily than small differences to try and avoid pairs of customers which are fairly similar except for having some columns very different, you could try something like the square of the differences:-
=MIN(IF(ROW($C$1:$K$4)<>ROW(),(MMULT(($C1:$K1-$C$1:$K$4)^2,TRANSPOSE(COLUMN($C$1:$K$4))^0))))
then the scores for your test data would come out as 7,127,7,127.
I'm assuming you want to compare customers 2-4 with customer 1 and that you are comparing only within each column. In this case, you could implement a 'scoring system' using multiple IFs. For example,:
A B C D E
1 Customer 1 1 1 2
2 Customer 2 1 2 2
3 Customer 3 0 1 0
you could use in E2
=if(B2=$B$1,1,0)+if(C2=$C$1,1,0)+if(D2=$D$1,1,0)
This will return a 'score' of 1 when you have a match and a 'score' of 0 when you don't. It then adds up the scores and your highest value will be your best match. Copying down would then give
A B C D E
1 Customer 1 1 1 2
2 Customer 2 1 2 2 2
3 Customer 3 0 1 0 1
so customer 2 is the best match.
I would like to sort my Excel file by horodate so when we switch from summer time to winter time data is ordered by chronological order and so that when I create a graph the data is represented in the right order.
When i sort by horodate (from a to Z) i obtain that:
Horodate Value Chronological order
2014-10-26T01:30:00+02:00 32273345000 1
2014-10-26T02:00:00+01:00 28310393000 4
2014-10-26T02:00:00+02:00 31705207000 2
2014-10-26T02:30:00+01:00 27116547000 5
2014-10-26T02:30:00+02:00 29900587000 3
2014-10-26T03:00:00+01:00 26535312000 6
2014-10-26T03:30:00+01:00 26165805000 7
2014-10-26T04:00:00+01:00 26022551000 8
Which is not the chronological order as you see.. I would like to have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Thank you
You can add helper column and sort using it:
Formula in D1 (dragged down) is:
=SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,19),"T"," ")-RIGHT(A1,5)*(MID(A1,20,1)&"1")
First part (SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,19),"T"," ")) calculates date and time part, second (-RIGHT(A1,5)) timezone offset, and the third (MID(A1,20,1)&"1") sign of timezone offset (you can remove it, if there is always + in horodate).