January 2011
Beginner to intermediate
720 pages
23h 29m
English
Questions answered in this chapter:
People often say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Can I use Excel to create a picture (called a histogram) that summarizes the values in a data set?
What are some common shapes of histograms?
What can I learn by comparing histograms from different data sets?
The ability to summarize a large data set is important. The three tools used most often to summarize data in Microsoft Excel are histograms, descriptive statistics, and PivotTables. In this chapter, I discuss the use of histograms for summarizing data. I cover descriptive statistics in Chapter 42, and PivotTables in Chapter 43.
People often say that a picture is worth ...