Updates tagged: spreadsheets
Useful resources for analysing and visualising data
- Paul
- August 12, 2009
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If you're working with data on an investigation you might find this roundup of links and blog posts useful: online tools for reporting numbers
How to create a form for people to add information to your spreadsheet
- Paul
- August 10, 2009
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Rather than asking people to edit a whole spreadsheet, you can make it easier by creating a form for them to add particular information by answering questions.To do this, open your spreadsheet in Google Docs and click on Form > Create a form.A new window will appear containing a form that you can edit, with some information automatically added.If you roll over any of the questions you will see buttons for you to edit, duplicate...
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Allowing others to edit your spreadsheet - and tracking what happens
- Paul
- July 30, 2009
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Following on from the previous post on creating and publishing a spreadsheet online, here's how you allow others to add to that, and how you track what happens: To allow others to edit your spreadsheet, open it and click on Share (in the top right area) then click See who has access... A new window will open - towards the bottom of that it will say 'Sign-in is required to view this item' which means...
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Creating and publishing a spreadsheet online
- Paul
- July 24, 2009
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For some investigations it will be useful to create a public spreadsheet of information. There are 3 main reasons why: * It's a better way of displaying data than using a sentence of text * It means people can easily see where the gaps are - and fill them in * It also allows people to do interesting things with the data, like visualise it, or mix it up ('mashup') with information from elsewhere, e.g....
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