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Working with Data: Spreadsheets
Many data scientists will not pick spreadsheets as their first tool for various and valid reasons. However, it’s a popular way to store and explore data because it requires less work to get setup and started. In this lesson you’ll learn the basic components of a spreadsheet, how to apply formulas and functions, generating charts and pivot tables, and how to sort and filter a spreadsheet. This lesson provides foundational knowledge of spreadsheets in the rare event that you find yourself working with with them. The examples will be illustrated with Microsoft Excel, but most of the parts and topics will have similar names and steps in comparison to other spreadsheet software.
Pre-Lecture Quiz
Pre-lecture quiz
Introduction
File Workbooks Worksheets Columns Row Cell Header
Exploring Values
Date (slash or dash) times (colon) Numbers Text/alpha characters Autofill?
Formulas
- How to start one (equal and cell id)
- formula bar
- copying by dragging over by fill handle
Functions
- Basic mathematics
- Sum
- Average
- XLookup/lookup functions -relationships
Charts
- Creating a chart
- Pivot Tables
Misc
-Sorting -Filtering
- Pivot table - summary totals
🚀 Challenge
Post-Lecture Quiz
Post-lecture quiz