The State Changers' meeting focused primarily on dealing with data management issues using Xano, particularly in handling and manipulating arrays of parameters. The key participant, David, sought help in ranking parameters along with their counts. They had identified unique parameters but were finding it challenging to determine the frequency of each.
A technical issue also arose with Xano, where duplicating functions was not working correctly, making the task more difficult. Moreover, understanding variable manipulation in Xano seemed to be nontrivial. The meeting delved deep into addressing these issues. Iterating through a complete list of parameters to create an 'accumulator', an object that holds keys (the parameters) and values (their counts), was the first solution proposed. This accumulator was first defined with zeros as initial tally counts for the parameter, which were then increased by 1 whenever a parameter reappeared in the iteration through the complete list. Following this, an object called 'entries' was created and sorted by its values in descending order to return an array sorted by frequency. In Xano, the key steps were creating a blank object for each unique item to serve as a bucket, iterating again to increment counts, and finally converting the counts back into an array and sorting them in descending order of frequency. The emphasis was on splitting the complex problem into simpler components. The expectation was that through this exercise, it should help not only David but also other team members who might face similar challenges. Keywords used in the meeting: Xano, data management, parameters, accumulator, keys, values, sort, object, array, entries. Overall, the meeting is a valuable resource for understanding how to manipulate data and maintain counts of unique parameters in Xano, especially in the context of data management and sorting issues. It's particularly useful for those looking to understand and overcome similar challenges.
(Source: Office Hours 7/17/2023 )
