2022: Week 36 - Calendar Conundrum

Challenge by: Jared Flores

After beginner and intermediate months, it felt like time to give Carl a break! So here's a challenge submitted by Prep Star Jared:

As part of managing your store, you need to know which days you have coverage and which days you still need to schedule. When plugging your data into Tableau to create a calendar, you get this view because you’re missing dates:


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We need to modify the data so that even dates with no coverage show in the view:

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Input

  • Employees and their scheduled dates

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Requirements

  • Input the data

  • The main challenge is to solve this using only employee_data input

  • Create a Calendar Table

    • Create a date range for the calendar

      • This should be dynamic to handle new data

      • The start of the range should be the based on the year of the earliest date

        • If earliest date is 06/01/2021, the start date should be 01/01/2021

      • The end of the range should be the last day of the year for the latest date in the data set

        • If the latest date is 06/01/2022, the end date should be 31/12/2022

    • Generate a row for every day between the start and end date to get a calendar table

  • Create a field containing the full name for each employee

  • Get a unique list of employees with their full name, first/last name fields, and employee id

  • Join the list to the calendar table

    • You should have a table with one row per employee per day

  • Join the new calendar table to the main table

    • One row per employee per day, even on days where the employee wasn’t scheduled

  • Create a flag if the employee was scheduled on the day

  • Handle any null values

  • Output the data

Output

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  • 6 fields

    • Scheduled_date

    • Emp_id

    • Full_name

    • First_name

    • Last_name

    • Scheduled

  • 7300 rows (7301 including headers)

You can download the full output here. 

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