SILS iSchool

 week of 09 April 2020 

meets Tuesdays from 1100-1215

 done remotely, using Sakai and Zoom 

Contact options

office hours done remotely 



Value Added | daily

Class Schedule

Basics | sessions 01-03
  1. 09 Jan intro and clients | lecture | labs
  2. 16 Jan servers and command line | lecture | labs
  3. 23 Jan networks and protocols | lecture | labs
Web Development | sessions 04-07

  1. 30 Jan structural layer | lecture | labs
  2. 06 Feb presentational layer | lecture | labs
  3. 13 Feb using a structure | lecture | labs
  4. 20 Feb behavioral layer | lecture | labs
Document Markup | sessions 08-09
  1. 27 Feb control objects and display | lecture | labs
  2. 05 Mar tools that read markup | lecture | labs
Working with Data | sessions 10-13
  1.  26 Mar  formulas, functions, vectors | lecture | labs
  2.  02 Apr  data display | lecture | labs
  3.  09 Apr  manipulate data sets | lecture | labs
  4.  16 Apr  relational data bases | lecture | labs
Presentation | session 14
  1.  23 Apr  designing and delivering a presentation | lecture | labs


Spreadsheets can be flat file databases.
The tools in Excel can manipulate such databases to array the data exactly as needed.

According to Microsoft

Sorting data is an integral part of data analysis. ... Sorting data helps you quickly visualize and understand your data better, organize and find the data that you want, and ultimately make more effective decisions.

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Still using your downloaded workbook ...

Do a single level sort

  1. Sort the data rows on the 03-NC ZIP codes worksheet by ZIP Code.
  2. Have the sort display from smallest to the largest.

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Still using your downloaded workbook ...

Do a multi-level sort

  1. Sort the data rows on the 06-VA-Religion worksheet
  2. first by Sikh from LARGEST to smallest,
  3. and then by Catholic from SMALLEST to largest.

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week of 09 April labs | sorting | filtering | pivot tables