The data I am looking at is movies and one of the columns is genres. However JMP has the genres that a particular movie is categorized under grouped as one data set "Fantasy|Horror|Romance|Thriller" rather than as individual movie genres "Fantasy", "Horror", "Romance", "Thriller". I want to separate the genre column so that I can analyze the genres individually. How would I clean the data so that when I go to sort the movies based on genre it gives me the individual genre rather than the grouped set?
Click on the column header for the column in question(genres). Then go to the column pull down menu and select
Cols=>Utilities=>Text to Columns
Fill out the simple dialog box that pops up to specify your "|"
and click OK, and the different fields from the multiple field column will be separated into new columns.
Note: This is a data table I just threw together. The genres are just random values
Now just go to
Tables=>Stack
and stack all of the new genres columns
This will give you a table that actually will give you a nice way to select Genres.
You can also go another step, and split the data
Tables=>Split
Where you Split By the Genres column, Group by the Title column, and also specify the Genres column as the Split column
It will give you a data table like the one below
If this doesn't meet your requirements, please specify what you want the data table to look like, and I am sure the Community can come up with an answer on how to transform your data.
