A data analyst for a media company needs to determine the most popular movie genre. Given the table below: Which of the following must be done to the Genre column before this task can be completed?

The correct answer is D. Delimit. Delimit (D) is the correct answer. When multiple genres are stored together in a single cell (e.g., 'Action, Comedy, Drama'), the column must be delimited - meaning split or parsed using a separator character (like a comma or pipe) - so each genre can be counted individually…

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A data analyst for a media company needs to determine the most popular movie genre. Given the table below:

Which of the following must be done to the Genre column before this task can be completed?

Exhibit

Options

AAppend
BMerge
CConcatenate
DDelimit

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A
6% (2)
C
3% (1)
D
91% (31)

Explanation

Delimit (D) is the correct answer. When multiple genres are stored together in a single cell (e.g., 'Action, Comedy, Drama'), the column must be delimited - meaning split or parsed using a separator character (like a comma or pipe) - so each genre can be counted individually. Without delimiting, a value like 'Action, Comedy' would be treated as one unique genre rather than two separate ones, making it impossible to accurately count the popularity of each genre. Append (A) adds rows, Merge (B) combines columns or tables, and Concatenate (C) joins strings together - none of these solve the problem of parsing multiple values out of a single field.

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#Data cleaning#Data preparation#Delimiting#Text processing

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