I made columns that simply lists all the schools for each student under a date column header. I only need to count the schools - I don't want to see any student data. I have a form that needs to be submitted to the state and there is a cell with the date we are submitting. I want to use an IMPORTRANGE to go to the other spreadsheet and find the column where the date matches the form date and pull back the count of schools in that column. I tried using INDEX/MATCH, etc., and while I have those working on the form for other data already on my spreadsheet - I can't seem to get them to work on the 'outside' spreadsheet. Any help is appreciated! I'm attaching an example spreadsheet with more explanation. I hope it's clear. Thank you.
Example Document
ztiaa has provided a good solution. I will suggest another which pivots the data differently. I feel that having the dates go across columns is going to quickly become unwieldy. So this approach leaves the dates running down the right side with the schools running as column headers. My solution also includes exceptions such as snow days, as those will likely be important to see at a glance as well. Just be careful to use the same notation for such exceptions. For instance, always use "snowday" (not, eg., "snow day") or "prep day" (not, e.g., "prep").
In Sheet1, use IMPORTRANGE to bring in the data exactly as you have it listed in your sample sheet (i.e., dates at top, school names or exceptions under each date header).
Then, in a new sheet, place the following formula in cell A1:
=ArrayFormula({QUERY(SPLIT(FLATTEN(FILTER(Sheet1!1:1&"~"&INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!1:1<>"")),"~",1,0),"Select Col1, COUNT(Col1) WHERE Col2 Is Not Null GROUP BY Col1 PIVOT Col2 FORMAT Col1 'mmm dd'"),TRANSPOSE({"District Totals",MMULT(SEQUENCE(1,ROWS(Sheet1!A2:A),1,0),IF(FILTER(INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!1:1<>"")="",0,1))})})
This assumes that the first sheet is, in fact, named Sheet1. If it is not, you'll need to change every instance of that sheet name in the formula.
It will probably further aid visual ease if you freeze Row 1 and Column 1 (View > Freeze > 1 row / 1 column).
ADDENDUM (after seeing realistic copy of OP's sheet)
=ArrayFormula({TRANSPOSE(QUERY(SPLIT(FLATTEN(FILTER(Sheet1!1:1&"~"&INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!2:2<>"")),"~",1,0),"Select Col1, COUNT(Col1) WHERE Col2 Is Not Null GROUP BY Col1 PIVOT Col2 FORMAT Col1 'mmm dd'"));{"District Totals",MMULT(SEQUENCE(1,ROWS(Sheet1!A2:A),1,0),IF(FILTER(INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!2:2<>"")<>"",1,0))}})
If you prefer to see the name of the exception (e.g., "snowday") rather than the count of 1 for each exception in the "District totals" line:
=ArrayFormula({TRANSPOSE(QUERY(SPLIT(FLATTEN(FILTER(Sheet1!1:1&"~"&INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!2:2<>"")),"~",1,0),"Select Col1, COUNT(Col1) WHERE Col2 Is Not Null GROUP BY Col1 PIVOT Col2 FORMAT Col1 'mmm dd'"));{"District Totals",IF(MMULT(SEQUENCE(1,ROWS(Sheet1!A2:A),1,0),IF(FILTER(INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!2:2<>"")<>"",1,0))=1,FILTER(Sheet1!2:2,Sheet1!2:2<>""),MMULT(SEQUENCE(1,ROWS(Sheet1!A2:A),1,0),IF(FILTER(INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!2:2<>"")<>"",1,0)))}})
If you want exceptions (e.g., "snowday") to always appear at the bottom instead of in alphabetical order within the school-name list:
=ArrayFormula({TRANSPOSE(QUERY(SPLIT(FLATTEN(FILTER(Sheet1!1:1&"~"&IF(REGEXMATCH(UPPER(INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A))),INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A))),,"‡")&INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!2:2<>"")),"~",1,0),"Select Col1, COUNT(Col1) WHERE Col2 Is Not Null AND Col2 <> '‡' GROUP BY Col1 PIVOT Col2 FORMAT Col1 'mmm dd'"));{"District Totals",IF(MMULT(SEQUENCE(1,ROWS(Sheet1!A2:A),1,0),IF(FILTER(INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!2:2<>"")<>"",1,0))=1,FILTER(Sheet1!2:2,Sheet1!2:2<>""),MMULT(SEQUENCE(1,ROWS(Sheet1!A2:A),1,0),IF(FILTER(INDIRECT("Sheet1!2:"&ROWS(Sheet1!A:A)),Sheet1!2:2<>"")<>"",1,0)))}})
Try this out
=ArrayFormula({query(split(flatten(text(A1:E1,"mmm/d")&"❄️"&A2:E),"❄️"),"select Col2, count(Col2) where not Col2 matches '|Snowday' group by Col2 pivot Col1");{"District Total",transpose(MMult(transpose(N(filter(A2:E,not(RegexMatch(A2:E2,"Snowday")))<>"")),sequence(rows(A2:E))^0))}})
Hi everyone,
I have 3 tables with different number of columns where some columns are actually repeated in these 3 tables (as shown in the screenshot above).
Table 1: Col A to Col D
Table 2: Col F to Col H
Table 3: Col J to Col L
I want to merge these 3 tables together to reduce the number of columns in my google sheet. The screenshot below is how I process these 3 tables before merging.
I'm using QUERY to create extra columns for each table so that the number of columns and the position are aligned between 3 tables. After that, I use QUERY again to append the 3 processed tables as shown in the screenshot below:
However, this method is very tedious when I have 10 tables or more. Is there any other easier ways or tricks to use so that I can achieve the same expected output as shown in the 3rd screenshot?
This is my sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H1gJAhp1RVax2fy8D-uEtFxdjb-zAHutkPFv5WZT_TY/edit#gid=0
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
You would need a really complicated formula to get the desired output which is a combination of multiple formula's
I added a new tab in you Google Sheet called "Solution" with this formula included
=QUERY(ARRAYFORMULA({
IFERROR( ArrayFormula(SPLIT(FLATTEN(Sheet1!B3:D3&"~"&Sheet1!A4:A&"~"&Sheet1!B4:D),"~")),"");
IFERROR( ArrayFormula(SPLIT(FLATTEN(Sheet1!G3:H3&"~"&Sheet1!F4:F&"~"&Sheet1!G4:H),"~")),"");
IFERROR( ArrayFormula(SPLIT(FLATTEN(Sheet1!K3:L3&"~"&Sheet1!J4:J&"~"&Sheet1!K4:L),"~")),"")}),
"SELECT Col2, SUM(Col3) WHERE Col2 is not null GROUP BY Col2 PIVOT Col1 LABEL Col2 'Student Name' ")
Steps:
Unpivot each table =IFERROR( ArrayFormula(SPLIT(FLATTEN(Sheet1!B3:D3&"~"&Sheet1!A4:A6&"~"&Sheet1!B4:D6),"~")),"")
Combine all tables into one table: =ARRAYFORMULA({__Unpivot1__; __Unpivot2__, __Unpivot3__})
Pivot above data in Step2: =Query(__Step2__, "SELECT Col2, SUM(Col3) GROUP BY Col2 PIVOT Col1 LABEL Col2 'Student Name' ")
Add WHERE Col2 is not null in the query to remove any possible blank rows
I have this table:
I need to create a timeframe model of it, in a day by day view but with one line for each Client, so it gets to look like this:
Number of clients may change with time, so it should somehow dynamically check the unique items in the Client column (UNIQUE(A2:A) would solve that) and use the number of unique clients to create the date repetitions and client repetitions per date.
Sample sheet here.
Is there a way out of that?
I think your data can be converted using this formula
=ArrayFormula(query(split(split(FLATTEN(A:A&"😎"&SUBSTITUTE(C1:D1;"Date of ";"")&"😎"&C:D&"*");"*");"😎");"select Col3, Col1, count(Col1) where Col3 is not null group by Col3, Col1 pivot Col2 order by Col3 label Col1'Client', Col3'Date'"))
I know the code to find the most frequent value in a single column, but I'm trying to figure out the code that lets me find the most frequent value in multiple specific columns.
For example:
=ARRAYFORMULA(INDEX(A2:A17,MATCH(MAX(COUNTIF(A2:A17,A2:A17)),COUNTIF(A2:A17,A2:A17),0)))
^^this formula only allows me to have two arguments for COUNTIF
=INDEX(A2:A6,MODE(MATCH(A2:A6,A2:A6,0)))
^^this one only allows 4 arguments max in the index
I want an equation that'll allow me to find the most frequent text value for 16 specific columns.
Is that even possible?
BETTER FORMULA
You asked for formula when you have 2 top values with the same frequency
=SORTN(QUERY(FLATTEN(H2:K),
"select Col1, count(Col1)
where Col1 is not null group by Col1
order by count(Col1) desc label count(Col1) '' ",0),1,1,2,0)
First answer
Use only 1 QUERY formula
For top value
=QUERY(FLATTEN(A2:D),
"select Col1, count(Col1)
where Col1 is not null group by Col1
order by count(Col1) desc limit 1",0)
For all values
=QUERY(FLATTEN(A2:D),
"select Col1, count(Col1)
where Col1 is not null group by Col1
order by count(Col1) desc limit 1",0)
I show it in 2 steps then combine steps together in one formula:
First you flatten table and remove duplicates to get a column of values you check frequency for:
unique(flatten(B2:I25))
Then for each one you check number of occurences:
ArrayFormula(countif($B$2:$I$25,unique(flatten(B2:I25))))
Then you have to filter new table and get only rows with highest values:
=filter({first , second column};second column = max(second column)
Using earlier values:
=filter({unique(flatten(B2:I25)),ArrayFormula(countif($B$2:$I$25,unique(flatten(B2:I25))))},ArrayFormula(countif($B$2:$I$25,unique(flatten(B2:I25))))=max(ArrayFormula(countif($B$2:$I$25,unique(flatten(B2:I25))))))
My solution is available here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gMZDFWOY8qbA1Bhp8rZ_por3Skb0i_qQtlaSlCTKXgM/copy
If your columns are scattered around your sheet, you should use { } and make a table of them.
I have a sheet that has 2 columns - id and comment. In a new sheet I need a formula that is set up like the following: First column is the id, the second column is the frequency of the id and the third column is a list of all the comments associated with that id.
Currently I got the first two columns working with the following formula but don't know how to add the third column (list of comments):
=ArrayFormula(QUERY(IF({1,1},TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(CONCATENATE('Oct. 2017'!C:C&CHAR(9)),CHAR(9))))&"","select Col1, count(Col2) group by Col1 order by count(Col2) desc label Col1 'ID', count(Col2) 'Frequency'",0))
Assuming your formula populates A1 onwards and your sheet with two columns is called Oct. 2017 please try in C1 and copied down to suit:
=join(", ",filter('Oct. 2017'!D:D,'Oct. 2017'!C:C=A1))