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Wk2 Activity 1 Modifying Data in Excel

The document provides a step-by-step guide on modifying and analyzing data in Excel, specifically focusing on the 'Top 20 Cars' dataset. It covers tasks such as calculating percent change in sales, sorting and filtering data, and applying conditional formatting to highlight specific trends. Additionally, it introduces data visualization techniques like sparklines for better data representation.

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Wk2 Activity 1 Modifying Data in Excel

The document provides a step-by-step guide on modifying and analyzing data in Excel, specifically focusing on the 'Top 20 Cars' dataset. It covers tasks such as calculating percent change in sales, sorting and filtering data, and applying conditional formatting to highlight specific trends. Additionally, it introduces data visualization techniques like sparklines for better data representation.

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Modifying Data in Excel

Sorting and Filtering Data in Excel


Conditional Formatting of Data in Excel
Lecture
1. Retrieve the Top20Cars.xls
2. Insert the last column “Percent Change in Sales from year x to year
y” (replace x and y with its corresponding year)
- calculate the percent change
3. Sort the sales data – highest to lowest (for 2010)
Excel – Data->Sort
4. Filter
4. Pvot table
- table, slicer, chart
5. Conditional Formatting
- navigate on the conditional formatting menu
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20 Top-Selling Automobiles in United States in March 2011

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Data for 20 Top-Selling Automobiles Entered into Excel with
Percent Change in Sales from 2010

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Using Excel’s Sort Function to Sort the Top-Selling
Automobiles Data

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Top-Selling Automobiles Data Sorted by Sales in
March 2010 Sales

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Top Selling Automobiles Data Filtered to Show Only Automobiles
Manufactured by Toyota

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Modifying Data in Excel
Conditional Formatting of Data in Excel
• Makes it easy to identify data that satisfy certain conditions in a data
set
• To identify the automobile models for which sales had decreased
from March 2010 to March 2011:
• Step 1: Starting with the original data, select cells F1:F21
• Step 2: Click on the Home tab in the Ribbon
• Step 3: Click Conditional Formatting in the Styles group
• Step 4: Select Highlight Cells Rules, and click Less Than from the dropdown
menu
• Step 5: Enter 0% in the Format cells that are LESS THAN: box
• Step 6: Click OK

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Figure 2.7: Using Conditional Formatting in Excel to Highlight Automobiles
with Declining Sales from March 2010

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Using Conditional Formatting in Excel to Generate Data Bars for the
Top-Selling Automobiles Data

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Modifying Data in Excel
• Quick Analysis button appears just outside the bottom-right corner of
a group of selected cells
• Provides shortcuts for Conditional Formatting, adding Data Bars, etc.
Data Visualization: Sparkline
How to create a sparkline (Insert-> Sparkline group click line)

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