| Abstract:
Powerful graphs and charts can be created quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel and in the R software environment for statistical computing and graphics. In this session, participants will receive numerous Excel templates and snippets of R code that will help them create a variety of bar charts, boxplots, histograms, and other pictures that can help tell stories "at a glance." Graph types, colors, labels, scales, formatting, and other topics important to easily interpreted graphs will be discussed, and participants with their own laptops will have an opportunity to change these properties of graphs and charts. The presenter's background in Computer Science, Instructional Technology, and Evaluation have helped her "push the limits" of Excel and go beyond the typically used features of R to create powerful graphs and charts to display results of complex data to educators and others who might have otherwise closed their eyes to avoid the numbers.
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