Spreadsheets: Basics, Features, & Functions

Spreadsheets are one of the most common tools used across industries to collect, store, organize, analyze, and visualize data. Comfort and proficiency manipulating spreadsheets is a vital academic and professional skill. In this student-focused workshop, we'll cover the characteristics of spreadsheets, and practice some of the most common tools, features, and functions that can be used to clean, complete, compute, and explore data.

Topics discussed:

- Spreadsheet basics

- Pro-tips and helpful tools unique to spreadsheet software

- Commonly used computing functions

This student-focused session is the fourth in a five part series of workshops building data literacy and related practical skills delivered by Lafayette Libraries, co-sponsored by Lafayette Data Community. Each workshop is designed to stand alone, but they also compliment each other.

Skillman 003, doors at 12, workshop 12:20pm-1pm. Lunch provided!

Please bring your laptops! We will be working with Google Sheets.