Hi Everyone,
I have a challenge that is failing to take root in my brain, and I'm hoping that someone will have a great idea, if not an actual solution.
Here's my situation: I have a list of charitable membership (about 7000 people) and a list of projects that those members have expressed interest in pursuing. There's about 1200 different projects.
I've been charged with pulling together a list which shows all the members who expressed interest in the same subset of projects. I recognize that there could be--worst case--7000 different combinations, if no two people ticked exactly the same boxes, but my gut says that I'm more likely looking at about 2000 combinations, max.
Clearly, Excel can show me who is interested in each of the projects, and give me their count (simple pivot table). But I am stumped to understand how to identify each unique combination of interests and then identify everyone for whom each combo was "their" combo.
I've done the simple pivots and can let you know that the highest number of projects anyone marked was 95, and the average number of projects marked is 9.
Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, solutions, and well-wishes will be tremendously valued.
Thanks to all,
Scott
I have a challenge that is failing to take root in my brain, and I'm hoping that someone will have a great idea, if not an actual solution.
Here's my situation: I have a list of charitable membership (about 7000 people) and a list of projects that those members have expressed interest in pursuing. There's about 1200 different projects.
I've been charged with pulling together a list which shows all the members who expressed interest in the same subset of projects. I recognize that there could be--worst case--7000 different combinations, if no two people ticked exactly the same boxes, but my gut says that I'm more likely looking at about 2000 combinations, max.
Clearly, Excel can show me who is interested in each of the projects, and give me their count (simple pivot table). But I am stumped to understand how to identify each unique combination of interests and then identify everyone for whom each combo was "their" combo.
I've done the simple pivots and can let you know that the highest number of projects anyone marked was 95, and the average number of projects marked is 9.
Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, solutions, and well-wishes will be tremendously valued.
Thanks to all,
Scott
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