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The Student Survey Sorting and Filtering the

Data
In order to draw any conclusions about the data from the survey we need to be
able to sort and filter it. Fortunately, Excel is very good at doing this (you may
wish to watch a video tutorial to see how to do this). The following tasks are
designed for you to get to grips with the data and learn how to search for
information that you want.

Task 1

Download the data. If you took part in the survey try to find yourself!

Take some time to look at the data that interests you. Write down ANYTHING
interesting that you notice!

Task 2

Filter out all the students from the Academia Britanica cuscatleca and fill out
this frequency table for their nationalities

National Frequen
ity cy

American

Honduran

Mexican

Salvador
an

Spanish

Task 3

1. Unfilter the data (filter and select all) so that you have all school showing.
2. Use SORT to find the range of heights in the survey.

3. Sometimes there are problems when we collect data. People can


misunderstand the questions, type the wrong information in the form and
sometimes write silly answers! Being able to filter and sort the data

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enables us to see these then we can decide whether we include the data
or not.

4. Find the tallest person and write down their height and arm span.
Comment.

5. Find the person with the longest arm span. Comment on their height.

6. Sort the data in order of Visual acuity time. Is there anything


interesting/strange you notice?

7. Being able to filter and sort the data also enables us to look at just the
information that we want. I have a hypothesis that boys will spend more
time playing computer/video games than girls. Filter and sort the data so
that you can investigate this hypothesis by filling in the following
frequency tables. You may wish to work with a partner to split the task in
two (e.g. one of you does the data for males and the other for females).
Girls Boys

Time Frequenc Time Frequenc


y y

0 0

1 1

2 2

3 3

4 4

5 5

6 6

7 7

8 8

9 9

10 or 10 or

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more more

8. Does this support my hypothesis?

9. Could you display this information in a graph ?

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