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How to create an average on the position for each value in events (ex: Dog = position 1 and 5, Average for Dog = 3)?

JovanMilosevic
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Hi Wonder if any of the community can help me.

I'm trying to create an average of some data, and running into problems.

My data looks like this

Fieldname is Animals

Event 1 - "Dog","Cat","Horse","Rabbit","Zebra"
Event 2 - "Zebra","Horse","Cat","Rabbit","Dog"

I'm trying to create an average for each element (i.e each animal) in the event, based on it's position.

So -
Dog = position 1 and 5
Cat = position 2 and 3
Horse = position 3 and 2
etc

what I want out the back of this, is a table that looks like the following

Animal Avg
Dog 3
Cat 2.5
Horse 2.5
Rabbit 4
Zebra 2.5

Many Thanks for any help.

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aalanisr26
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index=win |head 2| eval animals="Dog,Dog,Dog,Cat,Horse,Rabbit,Zebra"|eval animals= split(animals,",") |eval eventno=1 |accum eventno |mvexpand animals |streamstats count by eventno |stats avg(count) by animals

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aalanisr26
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index=win |head 2| eval animals="Dog,Dog,Dog,Cat,Horse,Rabbit,Zebra"|eval animals= split(animals,",") |eval eventno=1 |accum eventno |mvexpand animals |streamstats count by eventno |stats avg(count) by animals

aalanisr26
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the index=win|head 2|
was just for testing purposes but I get the idea right?

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JovanMilosevic
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Thats got it!

Thanks - Really appreciate that.

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