Excel Graphing
Chart Terms Explain: Different chart types are good for different data sets (see second page of document). Keep it simple. You may want to consolidate your data. Powerful if made in excel, can be updated in other office products. Show X and Y axis: X is independent variable and Y is dependent variable. Data series and legend.
Creating a chart Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Agricultural Sciences 272 213 324 447 Applied Human Sciences 1052 845 939 1352 Business 400 471 597 686 Engineering 613 455 337 693 Intra-University 1784 195 58 Liberal Arts 800 344 248 1669 Natural Sciences 902 578 785 1056 Veterinary Med & Biomedical Science 123 129 166 237 Warner College of Natural Sciences 212 286 348 512 Instruct the students to open excel and type in the data sets. Select all the data Choose insert, 3D Clustered Column. Directions on page 3 of help document.
Chart Tools Quick Analysis Tool— Recommended Charts-- Show the various options
Plotting Nonadjacent Selections Selecting from the data. Selecting from the chart. Selecting from the Chart tools design tab. Page 7 of help document Show how you can hold down the CTRL key and select columns needed for data. Show how you can right click on the chart to change data.
Understanding series Add series (page 8 of help document). Edit series window-(page 9) Series names are going to the legend. Series values are the data values that are plotted. Edit the legend. Work with the chart that has limited data from the last slides Select Design and select data under the chart tools. Get rid of the ={1} before selecting the series values! Move data on the legend by deleting and adding series names.
Changing Chart Type Change the chart type on page 10 Formatting chart elements on page 12 Chart Elements-page 13 Chart Style-page 14 Chart filter-page 15
Assignment-due Monday Sep. 18th Graph Skittles Isotope Data: Type in Data Set (hint: make the isotope color and atomic mass columns into one). Graph Isotope color/mass vs. Total # of Isotope into a bar graph. Include the following: Title, Axis title and units, and legend. Extra credit: Pie chart of % of total mass. Extra credit: pie chart of isotope color/mass vs. % of total mass.