Hello,
I have a fairly limited knowledge of Excel, but I'm wondering if someone can
help me use it for a somewhat novel task.
I have a website where I've demo'd some graphic art pieces and have asked
viewers to vote for their favorite 5 out of 26 pieces. I got 25 votes, so
I've got 5x 25 results, which I've entered in columns labeled "1st place,
2nd place... " etc.
I'm wondering if Excel can help me "choose" the most popular art pieces
somehow; or else generate an out put of an ascending or descending
"popularity" scale; somehow mathematically quantifying the choices. ie,
"1st place" column entries could be "multiplied" by say a factor of 10, 2nd
place enties "multiplied" by 8, etc.
Only trouble is, working with math you'd end up with fractional results,
whereas only the whole, original and absolute values of the integers
representing the art pieces would have any value.
For instance, if piece #7 appears in the 1st place column 3 times, and in
the 3rd place column 2 times, it gets a score of 70+18, for an overall
"rating" of 88.
Perhaps the whole thing is more like evaluating a "matrix" which gets pretty
tricky and takes me into math that I haven't comprehended since high school!
thanks for any pointers
(or relevant humor)
RD
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