SILS iSchool

 week of 09 April 2020 

meets Tuesdays from 1100-1215

 done remotely, using Sakai and Zoom 

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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

Use filters to temporarily hide some of the data in a table, so you can focus on the data you want to see.

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Still using your downloaded workbook ...

Demonstrate facility with a number filter

  1. Filter the data on the 13-Filter Disabled Workers worksheet  to find the bottom three Congressional Districts in terms of Disabled Workers
  2. Do not sort the results. Simply show the results of filtering out all but the bottom three districts.

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Still using your downloaded workbook ...

Demonstrate facility with a number filter, after having used an exclusion filter to show only one subset of data 

  1. Use a multilevel filter on the 14-Language Preferences worksheet to find out which of the languages whose names start with the letter A only
  2. had Receipt Count (excluding 53rd week) between 1000 and 4000

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Still using your downloaded workbook ...

Again, demonstrate facility with a number filter, after having used an exclusion filter to show only one subset of data 

  1. Use a multilevel filter on the 15-Year&ResidentialCustomer worksheet to find out which of the Month of PeriodEndDate only in March
  2. had an above average ResidentialCustomerCount

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