Excel

Excel is a great application that can be used to do many things. There is a lot of options that can make it a useful tool whether you need to compare data, help organize data, and even make calculations from the data provided! It can be very helpful in almost any business setting and academic field. For example at my job this summer as a lifeguard, I helped my boss use excel to make weekly schedules then calculate the hours accordingly. As far as academic fields go, excel can be great for creating charts and graphs to help display data or even show the bell curve on a midterm.

I learned a lot of useful things in excel that i never knew before class. I never knew so many functions even existed, even though we only learned a few. My favorite function that we did learn was the IF function that allows you to check to see whether a function is true or false. The way you are able to freeze columns and/or rows was also very neat I thought because it makes it so much easier to find a particular set of data with out having to get mixed up in the surrounding data. I also never knew you could insert a table into a word document and change the table still using excel.

All together the things I learned will be very useful for the next time I ever have to do a statistical analysis of a large set of data. It will also help keep things organized and even help me keep track of my money in the future thanks to the many templates that deal with financial computation.