Please complete the following activities:
- Enter date data into rows & columns: https://uviclibraries.github.io/excel/basics-data-cleaning.html
- Name and identify rows & columns: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/give-name-columns-excel-73447.html
- Sort data, using the filter button: http://bit.ly/2I3qI6N
- Change categorical data (e.g., male, female) into numerical data (e.g., 1, 2): https://uviclibraries.github.io/excel/basics-data-cleaning.html
- Use the following functions: SUM, SUMIF, INT, COUNTA, COUNTIF, VLOOKUP,
CONCATENATE, VALUE, LEN: https://uviclibraries.github.io/excel/intro-functions.html - Track changes in Excel: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/track-changes-in-a-shared-workbook-22aea671-cac7-4fa3-845d-eeb23725bd15
- Use these statistical functions: AVERAGE (Mean), Standard Deviation, MEDIAN, MODE, COUNT,
Standardize, Sample Variance, Kurtosis, Skew,MIN, MAX, Range: https://uviclibraries.github.io/excel/statistical-functions.html - Produce basic graphs, histograms and scatterplots and edit them (e.g., add title, change axes names, colours, sizing etc): https://uviclibraries.github.io/excel/charting-graphs.html
Live Demonstrations
- Copy and paste a bunch of rows and columns into another worksheet (maybe the same as #1 on the list above?)
- With 2 open workbooks, move a tab/worksheet from one workbook to another (they will export a file and then add it to a template workbook – they should understand copying a worksheet/tab versus/and moving a worksheet/tab), move a tab within a workbook, rename a tab
- Create a new tab/worksheet
- Set up formulas that cross tabs/worksheets, i.e. link to another sheet using “=”
- Understand how an “IFS” statement works. They will not need to set one up, but they will use a template that has an IFS function: https://uviclibraries.github.io/excel/intro-functions.html