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Hungarian Algorithm Matching in Power Query?

Hi - I am trying to use power query to create the most optimal matches in a dataset. Think of it as the college dorm assigment problem. I have survey responses from a group of people and I want to match individuals with the most opposite responses. The issue is rather than create a unique score for each person, the individual's responses are compared to every other person to create a score for every possible pairing. I have been able to create a matrix with the participants on the X and Y axis and their pairing score. Now I need to select the pairings with the highest scores, without any of the participants being selected more than once. 

 

After some digging, it appears to be a perfect use case for the hungarian aglorithm, does anyone know how to do this in Power Query, or maybe have the Python code to do it?       

 

Thanks in advance

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v-yingjl
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 Hi @Anonymous ,

About Hungarian Algorithm in python, I think you could refer these two simliar articles which introduce it in details:

  1. The basic principle of Hungarian algorithm and its implementation in Python 
  2. Hungarian Algorithm 

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Yingjie Li
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Anonymous
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@v-yingjl those are great links, thank you! 

v-yingjl
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 Hi @Anonymous ,

About Hungarian Algorithm in python, I think you could refer these two simliar articles which introduce it in details:

  1. The basic principle of Hungarian algorithm and its implementation in Python 
  2. Hungarian Algorithm 

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Yingjie Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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