I input dollar amounts ($5,000.00-$7,000.00)on a daily basis and sort the data from highest to lowest. Each list can be about 75-100 entries long. How can Excel find areas of congestion within the list? Congestion can be defined as a group of numbers that are separated by no more than $20. The list can have several groups within. The groups or areas of congestion identified can be highlighted or...(another suggestion)
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On the surface, your question appears to me to be a type of "cluster analysis" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis ). I know very little about these algorithms, but have encountered them before. This thread should have a good introduction to these in Excel: https://www.excelforum.com/excel-gen...of-values.html This thread had quite a bit of discussion, several links to outside sources, and some examples that could be of value. I doubt you will find a turnkey solution in that discussion, but it should provide a good start towards your own solution.
From what I can gather, cluster analysis can be somewhat simple or can get quite involved depending on the details of a given project. It will probably be important to carefully define exactly how you intend to identify "congestion" or "clusters" before getting too far into the programming aspects.
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Looking for a result like this?
That's just conditional formatting.
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Thank you all for responding. I am looking for something similar to the highlighted list below. However it seems to be more complicated than conditional formatting. Unless I am missing something.
I experimented with conditional formatting, but did not get the desired result. The reason conditional formatting did not work is because once it starts to find a cluster/congestion it has to loop back to the start of that cluster and then continue on with the list until the cluster falls out of desired range.
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Thank you for the tread above. This may be what I am looking for.
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