Find majority

[kasbac]

Hi there

Im hoping for some help writing a formula that I cant seem to get my head around.

Coulm A=Unique serial codes
Coulmn B= Hours spend
Coulmn C=Activity

What I would like to show in Coulmn D is which activity an person has used the majority of his/hers hours on during the period (the same activity may be present several times for each person in diffrent lines). The major activity should be marked of with the name of the activity found in coulmn C.

Hope someone will be able to help me out, let me know if any clarifications are needed.

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

Do you mean something like?...

D2, control+shift+enter, not just enter, and copy down:

=IF(B2=MAX(IF($A$2:$A$100=A2,$B$2:$B$100)),C2,"")

 

[kasbac]

moveing in the right direction for sure

The formula however needs to also consider that the same activity can be split out in different lines for the same person and its the total of the activity that should determine if its the major activity

 

[kasbac]

here is my own suggestion so far:

=IF((SUMPRODUCT($B$2:$B$9;--($A$2:$A$9=A2);--($C$2:$C$9=C2))/SUMIF($A$2:$A$9;A2;$B$2:$B$9))>0,5;C2;"")

Two issues with this one though:
1: it only marks of an activity as a major if the activty is more than 50% however in some cases the activity distribution can be 20%-20%-30%-15%-15% in this case the 30% activity should be shown as the major.

2: In my actual data set i have more than 20.000 lines som im a bit concerned if the my excel is able to do all the calculations.

Hope that someone will be able to help me out?

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

Care to create a scaled-down sample illustrating the processing you need?

 

[kasbac]

sure hang tight

 

[kasbac]

Here is an example of what i want to do:

Book1
	A	B	C	D
1	Serial	Hours	Activity	Majoractivty
2	1	10	xxx	yyy
3	1	40	xxx	yyy
4	1	25	yyy	yyy
5	1	30	yyy	yyy
6	2	40	xxx	xxx
7	2	60	xxx	xxx
8	2	10	yyy	xxx
9	2	5	yyy	xxx
Sheet1

A=unique identifier
B=Hours spend on the activity
C=Activity code

I have filled in coulmn D manually, but what i want it to identify for each unique serial what that major activity for that person has been.

Thanks for your support

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

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Add the following code to your workbook as a module:

If you add the following code to your workbook as a module:
________________________________
Public Function V(Optional vrnt As Variant) As Variant
'
' Stephen Dunn
' 2002-09-12
'
Static vrntV As Variant
If Not IsMissing(vrnt) Then vrntV = vrnt
V = vrntV
End Function
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D2, just enter and copy down:

=A2&"|"&C2

E2, control+shift+enter, not just enter, and copy down:

=INDEX($C$2:$C$12,MATCH(MAX(V(IF($A$2:$A$12=A2,
   SUMIF($D$2:$D$12,$D$2:$D$12,$D$2:$D$12)))),V(),0))