Assignment Instructions/ Description
Discussion Questions/Paragraph format. Make sure you include citations for each one. You can also use the book citation.
1. Explain a bar graph and how to read one?
2. Explain a pie graph and how to read one?
3. Explain a line graph and how to read one?
4. Understand and interpret mean, median, mode standard deviation, and variance.
5. Understand and interpret mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and variance.
6. Excel® 2013: Pivot Tables in Depth
the instructional videos by clicking on the Lynda.com® link.
Type the titles "Excel 2013: Pivot Tables in Depth" or "Excel 2016: Pivot tables in Depth" in the Search Bar to find the video.
Consider the following as you watch:
Question: Understand how to use pivot tables to summarize, sort, count, and chart your data in Microsoft® Excel® 2013 and 2016?
7. Why are graphs and charts used to represent information? How can you determine that a graph or chart is misleading? Can the values used on the x and y axis determine what the graph looks like? Finally, can you figure out how to construct a graph of a non straight line (like a bell curve)?
8. What is statistics? As you can imagine research and the statistics accompanying the research can produce mixed results. The data that is used is critical. Is it biased? Is it random? How can someone determine whether a statistical study or some research is valid? How skeptical should we be? It's amazing how most people just trust numbers because they are confused by them. Lots of times they are made confusing on purpose. What are we to do?
9.Recall the readings and activities you have completed this week and describe the one or two points that were least clear to you. What questions do you have that would help you understand these points better? (You can talk about how Use Microsoft Excel® pivot tables to create frequency distributions and charts for qualitative data – bar and pie. Interpret information and make decisions)?
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