Is there a secret code in this data? [Excel Homework]
Are you ready for a fun Excel challenge? Read on then…
You are a nautical transport manifest analyst at New Donk city harbor. But you also have a secret identity. You are a spy for Global Intelligence Organization. As part of routine inspection of cargo details, you came across a list of shipping codes that look suspicious.
Job Title Matching Problem [Excel Homework]
Howdy folks. Almost the end of August here. Let’s wrap it up with a nice little challenge, inspired from my recent consulting gig. Say you are looking at few job titles that look similar and want to match them to correct title.
How many calls we got outside office hours? [Excel / Power Query homework]
Time for another Excel formula / Power Query challenge. This is based on a common business data analysis problem. Say you have two tables – calls log and office hours. Call log tells when each call is received. Office hours tell us working hours for seven days of the week. We want to know how many calls are outside office hours.
Elevator problem – Excel homework
The other day while I was in lift (elevator), it made an alarm like sound and won’t close the doors. Turns out there are one too many people in the lift for it to operate safely. As soon as a couple of people volunteered and stepped out, it started fighting gravity and took us upstairs. […]
How many people used their entire sick leave entitlement? [Power Query / Excel homework]
Imagine you are the HR analyst at BigLargeCompany. You are asked to find out whether staff at BLC (BigLargeCompany you silly) use up their full sick leave entitlement.
You have two tables – emps & leaves as illustrated below.
Your mission is to find out answers to below questions.
- How many employees used exactly 100% of their entitled sick leave?
- How many employees did not take any sick leaves?
- Listing of all employees who used 100% of their entitlement
Use either Power Query, Excel formulas or any other technique to answer the questions.
When is the next Monday? [Homework]
Psst. Hey you, yeah, you there… have time for a quick date? A date with Excel that is.
If so, take up this homework problem and post your answers in comments.
Assuming you have an input date in cell A1,
- What is the formula for finding next Monday?
- What is the formula for finding first Monday of next month?
Post your answers in comments
Which two teams qualify to next stage? [Excel Homework]
Time for some soccer fun in spreadsheets. Given a team points table like above,
How would you figure out in Excel, which teams qualify for next stage. The rules for this exercise are,
- Pick the top two teams by points
- If there is a tie, use Goal Difference (GD) to break ties (more GD is good)
- If there is a tie, use Goals For (GF) to break ties