{"id":23,"date":"2016-01-25T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:11:37","slug":"lab-1-excel-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/courses\/envs-149l\/lab-1-excel-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 1 &#8211; Using Microsoft Excel for Environmental Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this first week of lab we will go over the lab syllabus, talk about lab\/field trip procedure and work with some data sets that will get you familiar with Microsoft Excel. \u00a0Please make sure to bring the following to lab for the first meeting:<\/p>\n<p>1- Yellow Rite-in -rain spiral notebook<br \/>\n2- pencils and erasers<br \/>\n3- a laptop computer if you have one (we have plenty in lab if you do not have your own). \u00a0It needs to have MS Excel already installed. \u00a0The college provides free versions of MS Office.<\/p>\n<p>Mac users &#8211;\u00a0Excel 2015 has the statistical Add-in package called Analysis ToolPak for basic statistics (under Tools -&gt; Add-ins)<br \/>\nIf you are still using MS Excel 2011, it&#8217;s time to upgrade&#8230;but in the meantime <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/files\/2016\/01\/Statistical-Analyses-in-Mac-Excel-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here are the directions<\/a> for installing a 3rd party statistical package that will allow you to run some of the statistical computations for this lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this first week of lab we will go over the lab syllabus, talk about lab\/field trip procedure and work with some data sets that will get you familiar with Microsoft Excel. \u00a0Please make sure to bring the following to lab for the first meeting: 1- Yellow Rite-in -rain spiral notebook 2- pencils and erasers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":866,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jgourley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}