SWITCH it on!
Sometimes you may wish to transform your categorical variables: you can use SWITCH() for this.
The formula in cell I2 shows an example of reversing the "Kids status" variable you created to get the "Has kids?" values again from column D.
=SWITCH(H2:H25, "none", FALSE, "young", TRUE, "old", TRUE)
The first argument is a range of categorical input cells, then there are pairs of start values and transformed values.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Google Sheets
Exercise instructions
In cell
J2, call SWITCH() to return 1 when Kids status is "none", 2 when Kids status is "young", and 3 when Kids status is "old".Hands-on interactive exercise
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