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* [http://www.gnumeric.org/ Gnumeric] ''most powerful spreadsheet program'' | * [http://www.gnumeric.org/ Gnumeric] ''most powerful spreadsheet program'' | ||
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# Each table (or file) stores data about one class of experimental unit. | # Each table (or file) stores data about one class of experimental unit. | ||
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| + | == Tips & Tricks == | ||
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| + | === Keyboard shortcuts (Navigation) === | ||
| + | * [https://support.office.com/en-us/article/keyboard-shortcuts-in-excel-2010-20603861-42b6-4c93-82ec-66924ea9b323 Excel] | ||
| + | * [https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Shortcut_Keys_for_Spreadsheets Calc] | ||
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| + | === Formulas === | ||
| + | * With complex formulas, work backwards, or right to left: | ||
| + | ** LEFT(ROUND(SUM(A:A))/COUNT(A:A),3) | ||
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* Chart/Graph Y-Axis Label | * Chart/Graph Y-Axis Label | ||
* Chart/Graph Legend | * Chart/Graph Legend | ||
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| + | === Tips & Tricks === | ||
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| + | ==== Data Manipulation ==== | ||
| + | * Swap X Y or switch row/column | ||
| + | ** "Select Data..." from Chart filter | ||
==== Color ==== | ==== Color ==== | ||
Revision as of 12:51, 19 October 2015
Spreadsheets
give a simple explanation
- As explained by Wikipedia
- Best application for data gathering/collection
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The Good
- Spreadsheets is a low entry point for an application framework, in the same way that WordPress is a website framework
- You don't have to be a developer/programmer
The Bad
- Spreadsheets are used to make applications
- You don't have to be a developer/programmer
- Complex spreadsheets suffer from errors; become difficult to troubleshoot
The Ugly
The World of Spreadsheets
- Gnumeric most powerful spreadsheet program
- Single editor environment
- Size Limit: Max rows: 16,777,216; Max Columns: 16,384; Max Cells: 274,877,906,944
- Project doesn't provide Windows binaries; lag for latest version to be ported to Windows or Macintosh
- Libre Calc
- Single editor environment
- Size Limit: each sheet can have a maximum of 1,048,576 rows and a maximum of 1024 columns.
- Each document has a size limit of 4 GB
- Google Sheets
- Multi-editor environment
- Size Limit Up to 2 million cells
- Microsoft Excel
- Single editor environment
- x32 bit vs. x64 bit
- Size Limit: 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns
- x32 bit: Each document limited to 2GB
- x64 bit: Each document limited by system physical memory
- Microsoft Excel Online in Office 365
- Multi-editor environment --Maximum of 5 concurrent editors
- Size Limit: 250 MB
Tidy Data
- Each variable forms a column,
- Each observation forms a row,
- Each table (or file) stores data about one class of experimental unit.
Tips & Tricks
Formulas
- With complex formulas, work backwards, or right to left:
- LEFT(ROUND(SUM(A:A))/COUNT(A:A),3)
Graphing
The Top Ten Worst Graphs
Learning from others mistakes
The Top Ten Worst Graphs
Anatomy of a Graph
- Graph/Chart type
- Column
- Bar
- Pie
- Area
- Line
- XY Scatter
- Bubble
- Net
- Boxplot
- Mixed
- Chart/Graph Title
- Chart/Graph Subtitle
- Chart/Graph X-Axis Label
- Chart/Graph Y-Axis Label
- Chart/Graph Legend
Tips & Tricks
Data Manipulation
- Swap X Y or switch row/column
- "Select Data..." from Chart filter
Color
Visualization Data
TED TALK's
- David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
- Hans Rosling
- "let my dataset change your mindset"
- Manuel Lima: A visual history of human knowledge
Visualization
- Information Is Beautiful
- Gapminder --requires Adobe Flash plugin :-(
Shout out to DuckDuckGo search engine for bursting my filter bubble
