data organization problem?

Question

I have a data information like this...

http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=datacopy1qf.jpg


Now, based upon these data information i have to answer couple of questions.

As you see , the data information has been given in a hapazard manner ....we need to organise these data sets before answering the questions .

How do i organise these data ?

should i make a table ? i am bit confused here....i am getting confused with whole lots of data.

how do i organise these data for answering questions on this data set ?

could you please give me some tips ?

Thank you

Answer 1

This is a logic puzzle in 3 dimensions (although 2 dimensions are related).

The dimensions are: (staff member, shift, printout order). But shift and printout order are relatedm obviously.

You will want to make a chart that looks something like this:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
S|      1     ||      2      ||   3    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
P| 1 | 2 | 3 || 4 | 5 | 6 || 7 | 8 ||
= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
A |   |    |    ||    |    |    ||    |    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
B |   |    |    ||    |    |    ||    |    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
C |   |    |    ||    |    |    ||    |    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
D |   |    |    ||    |    |    ||    |    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
E |   |    |    ||    |    |    ||    |    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
F |   |    |    ||    |    |    ||    |    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
G |   |    |    ||    |    |    ||    |    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
H |   |    |    ||    |    |    ||    |    ||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The S row shows the shift, and the P row shows the printout order.

Just remember that one of the guys didn't get a printout, so if he was in the first or second shift, the printout numbers will be off after him.

Also...whenever you decide that you're sure about something, you can cross out everyone else in the same row and column. That helps get to an answer MUCH faster.

Does this make sense?

There's a tutorial on how to do these here:

http://www.puzzlersparadise.com/article1021.html