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Originally Posted by strawberry2
just started my first internship for a transport company, I have been tasked with organizing the data from truck departures. After organizing in excel, I have to conclude which day of the week and time of day our trucks get held up.
Can anyone suggest some formulas I can use in excel? Should I break down the averages of each terminal then graph the data? Please, any advice is greatly appreciated.
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Quantify the delay time for trucks in your spreadsheet.
Split up the time frames in categories (every hour or 1/2 hour during each day).
Do a weighted average of delay times for each time category. Graph the weighted averages. Also, you can sort your categories descending by weighted average delay time. A pattern will probably emerge. And if not, you will see there aren't any important days/times that are causing delays.
Good luck.
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