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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Pivot Tables
Today I created a pivot table (for the first time ever) using Microsoft Excel. I first entered in data. My data was made up, but you can use this when you actually collect real data from in field research, surveying, or whatever other methods you use to collect data. After entering the data I went to insert, clicked pivot table, and then selected (by dragging and dropping) which data fields I wanted in the columns, and which data I wanted in the rows. After doing that, I dragged the data field I wanted to be counted into the appropriate field.The end result was this:
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