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A generalisation of the MAP lambda helper function
- Sep 08, 2024
This is a demonstration of the proposed MAP function used to solve a challenge provided by Oz_Sunray and Wyn Hopkins on data cleansing and vote counting. The key element of my solution is to build a table of validated votes for each voter ID and each candidate (i.e. an array of arrays - much the same as any other problem of interest). The formula is modularised using Lambda functions. They are not that pretty, but neither are they impossible to follow.
"Worksheet formula" = AggregateVotesλ( tblVOTES[VoterID], tblVOTES[[Vote1]:[Vote3]], weight, tblAvailable[AVAILABLE] )
which calls
/* "FUNCTION NAME: AggregateVotesλ" "DESCRIPTION: Aggregates all votes to candidate colors" */ /* "REVISIONS: Date Developer Description" " 08 Sep 2024 Peter Bartholomew Original Development" */ AggregateVotesλ = LAMBDA(voterID, votesCast, weight, available, LET( person, TOROW(UNIQUE(voterID)), votes, MAPλ(person, AssignVotesλ(voterID, votesCast, weight, available)), count, HSTACK(available, BYROW(votes, SUM)), return, TAKE(SORT(count, 2, -1), 4), return ) );
to build and aggregate the table of votes. This, in turn, calls another Lambda function to clean and validate the votes corresponding to a single voterID
/* "FUNCTION NAME: AssignVotesλ" "DESCRIPTION: Validates and assigns votes to candidate colors for a single voterID " */ /* "REVISIONS: Date Developer Description" " 08 Sep 2024 Peter Bartholomew Original Development" */ AssignVotesλ = LAMBDA(voterID, ballots, weight, available, LAMBDA(p, LET( // "In the case of duplicate ballots return first" votesCast, XLOOKUP(p, voterID, ballots), // "Remove invalid and repeated votes" valid, COUNTIFS(available, votesCast), distinct, EXPAND(UNIQUE(FILTER(votesCast, valid), TRUE), , 3, ""), // "Assign votes to candidate colours" assigned, BYROW((distinct = available) * weight, SUM), assigned ) ) );
I took the problem from Wyn's recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIcxyLqzWcE
Has anyone figured out how to do a variation that has a different shape?