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Exercise

Ranking athletes from multiple countries

In the previous exercise, you used RANK to assign rankings to one group of athletes. In real-world data, however, you'll often find numerous groups within your data. Without partitioning your data, one group's values will influence the rankings of the others.

Also, while RANK skips numbers in case of identical values, the most natural way to assign rankings is not to skip numbers. If two countries are tied for second place, the country after them is considered to be third by most people.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Rank each country's athletes by the count of medals they've earned -- the higher the count, the higher the rank -- without skipping numbers in case of identical values.