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Extracting weekday components

One common date and time component that is difficult to calculate or extract manually is the day of the week. Part of the problem with extracting the day of the week is that different cultures define the start of the week differently, but Sunday and Monday are the most common.

In this exercise, you'll be preparing the film data for an analysis to determine if films released on particular days of the week gross larger amounts.

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Data Analysis in Google Sheets

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Exercise instructions

  • In column E, extract the day of the week as a number, where Sunday returns 1.
  • In column F, extract the short weekday name to match column E.

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