While looking through the graphic description I saw the word “Excel” and immediately got goosebumps. In all my experiences in using excel I have had nothing but negative feelings. However, I took the project head on and hoped for the best! I researched many statistics about Roger WIlliams University and went from academics to admissions. I ended up choosing the 2009-2010 RWU Men’s Swimming Meet Results for my data. I choose all the point accumulated at the end of the meet and made several different graphs. Making the table was fairly easy and it came very easy. After I got the table squared away I got very confused as to how to format my graphs. I decided to put three graphs which were bar graphs, line graphs, and a bar graph that were shaped like pyramids. I had trouble trying to label the axis along with adding more data to the graph. I tried formatting and editing but nothing worked. I finally came to a different “AHA” moment when I finally found out all one has to do is highlight the data and hit edit table! The narrative I was trying to accomplish with my graphs was how well the men’s swimming team was throughout the seasons. The graph also tells the teams wins and losses conveying how hard the teams were. At the end of making this graphic I was able to appreciate excel a tiny bit more along with understanding on how to make a fairly effective graph.
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