Using Sheets To help with data

Sheets is a spreadsheet program that can interface with forms, docs, or presentations. A spreadsheet program has cells (little blocks) that we can put information and then relate the cells to each other.

We can add text, numbers, or calculations To open Sheets, click on the “Drive” in the menu bar of Gmail.

Click on “Create” then “Spreadsheet”

Notice across the top are letters, and along the left side are numbers Each cell has its own address such as C14

Let’s start by typing “Distribution of Hair Color by Class” in B4 Create a table as shown

Click and hold the mouse on cell B5 and drag it to E9. There should be a block surrounding B5-E9

It may be important to know how many students there were total. –Click on E10 and type “=SUM(“ –You can now drag a box around all the cells you want to add up. Drag from C6 to E9

–Type “)” to close the parentheses –Press the Enter key Total students should show as 82

Let’s average each type of hair color –Click on F6 and type “=AVERAGE(“ and drag a box from C6 to E6 –Type “)” to close the parentheses –Press the Enter key

Pretty Cool huh?

Instead of typing that for each hair color, let’s copy the formula. The program will automatically adjust for the other rows. –Click in F6 –Click “Edit” from the menu at the top –Click “Copy” –Drag a box around the empty cells F7 to F9 –Click “Edit” then “Paste”

Make a column that totals each of the hair types from G6 to G9 This is discrete data that requires what kind of chart? –That’s right, a bar chart –In Sheets, they call it a column chart

Highlight F5-F9 and click on the “Charts” icon in the upper right

Choose “Column Chart” Click “Insert”

You now have a chart Click on “Chart Title” to edit Click on other parts to edit labels

How Awesome is that?!