1.  Using Data Visualization to Start Important Conversations Giving Support to your beliefs about your school.

2. Goals for today  Try to answer the question, “Why visualize data?”.  Learn where to find our data.  Create useful spreadsheets.  Create pivot tables to reveal the truths in our data.  Create graphs and charts to visualize data.  Create motion charts to enhance visualization

3. Why visualize data?  Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

4. Using data is about finding connections.

5. Where can we find our data?  Pearson: SOL Scores  PowerSchool: Academic, Discipline, Attendance, Enrollment, Scheduling, and other data  Other data sources

6. Pearson: SOL Scores

9.  Spreadsheet has 156 columns  Reduce to just those columns you need: Student Name, Teacher Name, Test Name, Score, Race, Ethnicity, Disability, Gender, Grade  Work in Excel or move to Google Spreadsheets

10. Pearson: SOL Scores  The “Nested If”

11. Pearson: SOL Data  Add a “Nested If” to your spreadsheet  Create a Pivot Table  Answer these questions: -Which teacher had the best pass rate? -Which gender had the best pass rate? -Which race had the best pass rate?

12. Formulas for calculating pass rate  Pass Advanced Percentage: Pass Advanced#/Total Test Takers#  Pass Percentage (Pass Advanced# + Pass#)/Total Test Takers#

13. Adding Charts

14. PowerSchool

15. PowerSchool Custom Reports

16. PowerSchool Custom and SQL Reports  “Letter Grades” report  Attendance  Discipline  Answer these questions: -Which class had the most Fs 2 nd Semester? -Which month has the most discipline events? -Which grade level has the most absences?

17. Creating a motion chart Time Frame Catagory Data Number

18. Creating a motion chart

19.  Create your own motion chart.  Invent your own data, or pick a student from the EVERYTHING SY1314 Q4 - Sandbox.xlsx file and track their attendance, math avg. and english avg.

20. Conclusions  Questions  Possible uses  Support: plawrence@hampton.k12.va.us