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We can solve this by maintaining an unordered_map with key as hotel_id and value as a pair of {'sum_of_scores', 'count_of_scores'}. Once we have exhausted all scores, we go through each the unordered_map and get the average score for each hotel and put it in the result list if its greater than or equal to the min_avg_score
Time complexity is O(n) because we go through the list once. It changes to O(nlogn) if the result list needs to be sorted by hotel_ids
Space complexity is O(n) to store intermediate results and the final result list

- as09 July 10, 2016 | Flag Reply
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def get_hotels(scores,min_a):
count ={}
sum1 ={}
res =[]
for a in scores:
try :
sum1[a["hotel_id"]] += a["score"]
count[a["hotel_id"]] += 1
except :
sum1[a["hotel_id"]] = a["score"]
count[a["hotel_id"]] = 1

for k,v in sum1.items():
if v/count[k] >= min_a:
res.append(k)
print(res)
return res

- jingnan July 11, 2016 | Flag Reply
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{
def get_hotels(scores,min_a):
count ={}
sum1 ={}
res =[]
for a in scores:
try :
sum1[a["hotel_id"]] += a["score"]
count[a["hotel_id"]] += 1
except :
sum1[a["hotel_id"]] = a["score"]
count[a["hotel_id"]] = 1

for k,v in sum1.items():
if v/count[k] >= min_a:
res.append(k)
print(res)
return res

}

- jingnan July 11, 2016 | Flag Reply
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private static void get_hotel(String scores, int avg_score) throws JSONException {

Set<Integer> id = new HashSet<Integer>();
JSONArray arr = new JSONArray(scores);
for (int i=0; i<arr.length(); i++){
JSONObject jsonProductObject = arr.getJSONObject(i);
int score = jsonProductObject.getInt("score");
if(score>=avg_score){
id.add(jsonProductObject.getInt("hotel_id"));
}
}
System.out.println(id);
//if hotel_id needs to be sorted
TreeSet sortedId = new TreeSet<Integer>(id);
System.out.println(sortedId);
}

- Anonymous July 11, 2016 | Flag Reply
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def get_hotels(scores,min_a):
count ={}
sum1 ={}
res =[]
for a in scores:
try :
sum1[a["hotel_id"]] += a["score"]
count[a["hotel_id"]] += 1
except :
sum1[a["hotel_id"]] = a["score"]
count[a["hotel_id"]] = 1

for k,v in sum1.items():
if v/count[k] >= min_a:
res.append(k)
return res

- jingnanzhubj July 12, 2016 | Flag Reply
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public static void avgRatingHotels(){

Multimap<String, Integer > multimap = ArrayListMultimap.create();
multimap.put("hotel1", 5);
multimap.put("hotel1", 6);
multimap.put("hotel2", 4);
multimap.put("hotel2", 3);
multimap.put("hotel1", 8);
multimap.put("hotel3", 5);
multimap.put("hotel2", 5);
multimap.put("hotel3", 7);

Set<String> str = multimap.keySet();
for(String str2 : str){
int k=0;
Collection<Integer> c = multimap.get(str2);
int count = c.size();
Iterator<Integer> itInt = c.iterator();
for(int c1 : c){
k+=c1;
}
System.out.println("Avg for "+str2+" is :"+k/count);
}


}

- Amitesh Srivastava July 12, 2016 | Flag Reply
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public static void avgRatingHotels(){
		
		Multimap<String, Integer > multimap = ArrayListMultimap.create();
		multimap.put("hotel1", 5);
		multimap.put("hotel1", 6);
		multimap.put("hotel2", 4);
		multimap.put("hotel2", 3);
		multimap.put("hotel1", 8);
		multimap.put("hotel3", 5);
		multimap.put("hotel2", 5);
		multimap.put("hotel3", 7);
		
		Set<String> str =  multimap.keySet();
		for(String str2 : str){
		int k=0;
		Collection<Integer> c = multimap.get(str2);
		int count = c.size();		
		Iterator<Integer> itInt = c.iterator();
		for(int c1 : c){
			k+=c1;
		}
		System.out.println("Avg for "+str2+" is :"+k/count);
		}
		
		
	}

- Amitesh Srivastava July 12, 2016 | Flag Reply
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public static void avgRatingHotels(){
		
		Multimap<String, Integer > multimap = ArrayListMultimap.create();
		multimap.put("hotel1", 5);
		multimap.put("hotel1", 6);
		multimap.put("hotel2", 4);
		multimap.put("hotel2", 3);
		multimap.put("hotel1", 8);
		multimap.put("hotel3", 5);
		multimap.put("hotel2", 5);
		multimap.put("hotel3", 7);
		
		Set<String> str =  multimap.keySet();
		for(String str2 : str){
		int k=0;
		Collection<Integer> c = multimap.get(str2);
		int count = c.size();		
		Iterator<Integer> itInt = c.iterator();
		for(int c1 : c){
			k+=c1;
		}
		System.out.println("Avg for "+str2+" is :"+k/count);
		}
		
		
	}

- Amitesh Srivastava July 12, 2016 | Flag Reply
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;

public class HotelScore {

    public static class Score {
        private int hotel_id;
        private int user_id;
        private int score;

        public Score(int hotel_id, int user_id, int score) {
            this.hotel_id = hotel_id;
            this.user_id = user_id;
            this.score = score;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Score[] scores = {
                new Score(1001, 501, 7),
                new Score(1001, 502, 7),
                new Score(1001, 503, 7),
                new Score(2001, 504, 10),
                new Score(3001, 505, 5),
                new Score(2001, 506, 5)
        };

        //int min_avg_score = 7;
        int min_avg_score = 5;

        System.out.println(get_hotels(scores, min_avg_score));
    }

    private static List<Integer> get_hotels(Score[] scores, int min_avg_score) {
        Map<Integer, List<Integer>> averageMap = new TreeMap<>();
        for (Score score : scores) {
            if (!averageMap.containsKey(score.hotel_id)) {
                averageMap.put(score.hotel_id, new ArrayList<>());
            }
            List<Integer> tempList = averageMap.get(score.hotel_id);
            tempList.add(score.score);
            averageMap.put(score.hotel_id, tempList);
        }

        List<Integer> finalList = new ArrayList<>();

        for (int hotel_id : averageMap.keySet()) {
            List<Integer> hotelScoreList = averageMap.get(hotel_id);
            int totalScore = 0;
            for (int score : hotelScoreList) {
                totalScore += score;
            }
            float averageScore = (float) totalScore / hotelScoreList.size();
            if (averageScore >= min_avg_score) {
                finalList.add(hotel_id);
            }
        }
        return finalList;
    }
}

- vijayinani July 12, 2016 | Flag Reply
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def get_hotels(score_list, min_avg_score):

	hotel_list = {}

	# Create a dictionary where we classify scores by hotel id
	for hotel_score in score_list:

		hotel_id = hotel_score['hotel_id']

		if not hotel_id in hotel_list.keys():
			hotel_list[hotel_id] = []
		
		hotel_list[hotel_id].append(int(hotel_score['score']))

	# Create a list of hotels that have at least the min_avg_score
	hotel_result_list = []

	for hotel_id in hotel_list.keys():
		
		score_average = (sum(hotel_list[hotel_id]) / len(hotel_list[hotel_id]))

		if score_average >= min_avg_score:
			hotel_result_list.append(hotel_id)

	return hotel_result_list

scores = [
	{'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 501, 'score': 7},
	{'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 502, 'score': 7},
	{'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 503, 'score': 7},
	{'hotel_id': 2001, 'user_id': 504, 'score': 10},
	{'hotel_id': 3001, 'user_id': 505, 'score': 5},
	{'hotel_id': 2001, 'user_id': 506, 'score': 5}
]

print "get_hotels(scores,5) -> " + str(get_hotels(scores,5))
print "get_hotels(scores,7) -> " + str(get_hotels(scores,7))

- Israel.Segundo July 13, 2016 | Flag Reply
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def get_hotels(scores,min_avg_score):
	hotels = []
	for item in scores:
		if item['hotel_id'] not in hotels and item['score'] >= min_avg_score:
			hotels.append(item['hotel_id'])

	return hotels


scores = [
	{'hotel_id':1001,'user_id':501,'score':7},
	{'hotel_id':1001,'user_id':502,'score':7},
	{'hotel_id':1001,'user_id':503,'score':7},
	{'hotel_id':2001,'user_id':504,'score':10},
	{'hotel_id':3001,'user_id':505,'score':5},
	{'hotel_id':2001,'user_id':506,'score':5}
]


first_result = get_hotels(scores,5)
for item2 in first_result:
	print str(item2)

second_result = get_hotels(scores,7)
for item3 in second_result:
	print str(item3)

- slckyvz July 13, 2016 | Flag Reply
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Quite a simple solution

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.TreeMap;

public class MinAverage {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		int[][] scores = {{1001,7},{1001,7},{1001,7},{2001,10},{3001,5},{2001,5}};
		
		System.out.println(get_hotels(scores, 5));
		System.out.println(get_hotels(scores, 7));
	}
	
	public static String get_hotels(int[][] scores, int min_avg) {
		TreeMap<Integer, Integer> scoreSum = new TreeMap<Integer, Integer>();
		HashMap<Integer, Integer> scoreCount = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
		for(int i=0; i < 6; i++) {
			int val = scores[i][0];
			if(!scoreSum.containsKey(val)) {
				scoreSum.put(val, scores[i][1]);
				scoreCount.put(val, 1);
			}
			else {
				scoreSum.put(val, scoreSum.get(val)+ scores[i][1]);
				scoreCount.put(val, scoreCount.get(val) + 1);
			}
		}
		String result = "";
		for(int val : scoreSum.keySet()){
			if(scoreSum.get(val)/scoreCount.get(val) >= min_avg) {
				result +=val+" ";
			}
		}
		
		return result;
	}

}

- liju.leelives December 30, 2016 | Flag Reply


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