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I don't understand all the gymnastics to correct for the fact that months end on different days (30, 31, etc.) and all the effort put into dealing with days by number.

For a given month, you can determine the last day. You can also determine the last weekday.

So just do a series that for each month shows "average weekday citations, non automatic" and "final weekday citations, non automatic" (and maybe "first weekday citations, non automatic").



If quotas are monthly not daily,some gymnastics is required.


This is exactly my point - the quotas are monthly not daily, but he's doing the wrong kind of work. He's putting his data into a daily format and then trying to extrapolate monthly information.

The right way to solve this problem is to find the exact thing you want - the precise last weekday of the month, the precise first weekday, and a precise weekday average - which is trivial with any decent date/time library. These would be the RIGHT kind of gymnastics. Tallying information by day and then running some kind of regression to approximate last-day traffic is a waste when you can just GET the last-day traffic.




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