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36 lines
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# Basic Excel Challenge
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A basic excel challenge that tests some skills that would be expected for someone to have basic analyst role. A data-team grade data analyst should fly through this. A Domain Analyst is expected to be able to complete it in the proposed timeline, with possible minor mistakes.
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## Goals
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The challenge requires the candidate to put to use the following skills:
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- Be able to read existing tables and understand what's in them.
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- Perform filters on a clean table.
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- Perform % of total calculations.
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- Compute mean and mode statistics of a series.
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- Create line charts.
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- Perform single key and composite key joins across tables.
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- Import CSV files into Excel.
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- Run basic arithmetic formulas.
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Some of these can be solved manually, through formulas, with pivot tables, etc. It's possible that different candidates use different strategies.
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Besides this, you can emphasize more or less the importance of pretty result presentation, reproducibility, methodology explanations, etc. That's up to you and not really defined in the test.
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## Inventory
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- `basic_excel_challenge - starting file.xlsx`: the workbook that serves as both starting point and instructions for the challenge. Candidate can use a copy of it as his working area.
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- `rates.csv`: a supplementary file that the candidate will have to import into the workboox.
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## How to use
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- Provide the candidate with both `basic_excel_challenge - starting file.xlsx` and `rates.csv`.
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- Sprinkle any specific instructions you might want to add.
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- Send it all to the candidate, provide a timeline and sit tight.
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## Solutions
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We still haven't done them lol. If you do it, please add to the repo.
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