EXCEL Advanced Tips and Tricks: Filter, Data Sort, Pivot Table, and Graphics

This session will use the spreadsheet that contains the 2015 Small Area Health Insurance Estimates for all counties and states of the United States to demonstrate several functions and tools in EXCEL for data tabulation, analysis, and presentation. The functions and tools include advanced sorting, filtering, and pivot table. The session will also include a demonstration of using graphic tools in EXCEL to present the data. Data visualization is a simple tool for sharing a dataset\u27s story with an audience, no matter what their background. Trends and population percentages are just two items that can be creatively displayed in EXCEL. We\u27ll learn how to create the visualizations that can help take presentations to the next level

Haigui's predicament in the job market : is there opportunity at the end of the tunnel?

textDriven by the desire for a bright future and a successful career, many young people in China are embarking on overseas odysseys to pursue higher education degrees in order to get decent jobs when they return to China. Those people who are educated abroad and come back with higher education diplomas are called "Haigui" in Chinese. Although they excel in their fields and are capable of the occupations that they dream of, most of them fail to get the jobs they so crave because of reasons beyond their control, such as the slump of the job market, unfair parental privilege, and the high density of Haigui in large cities. This story depicts the job-hunting experiences of four characters -- Ye, Zhang, Erin and Wu. (They requested not to use their real names for privacy concerns.) Their accounts showcase different facets of why Haigui employment in China is so dire. Until the job market in China improves and stops favoring nepotism, the number of Haigui will continue to rise as more and more Chinese students leave the country in search of better futures.Journalis

AKU-NAMA : Winter 2014, Volume 7, Issue 2

Highlights- Editorial: The Human Capital- In Pursuit of Happiness- Megan’s Story- Pioneers Meet Again!- AKU AANA Reunion 2014- Let’s Meet Up- A Home Away From Home- From Fertile Lands to the Arid Desert- Physician par Excellence- An Extraordinary Person- FHS Library in Nairobi Wins the Maktaba Award- Preparing to Excel- Alumni in the News- Class Notes- In Memoriamhttps://ecommons.aku.edu/aku_nama/1024/thumbnail.jp

Visualizing Fantasy Fiction: Design of a Class in Digital Scholarship and Visualization, including Research, Organization and Digital Visualization, that Does Not Require Programming or IT support

This paper outlines a course to integrate digital visualizations into undergraduate research. These visualizations will include mapping and timelines of events, and the ability to hyperlink the events, characters, and story lines in a fantasy fiction story such as Lord of the Rings or A Game of Thrones. The digital scholarship will involve the methodology for collecting, organizing, and representing the data for the visualizations. The topic for the visualizations in this paper is fantasy fiction; however the methods to develop these visualizations will be applicable to many academic disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences. The paper outlines the justification for this class, the appropriate audience for this class, and the tools needed. Types of projects and homework assignments to implement the visualizations are suggested. It concludes with a syllabus outlining a typical schedule for this class

THE EFFECT OF KNOWING THE MAIN IDEA OF A TEXT ON ANSWERING MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS WHICH LOOK FOR THE DETAILS OF THE TEXT

This paper describes a classroom research with two groups of high school students to clarify the effect of knowing the main of a text (here, the name of a story) on answering multiple-choice questions which look for details. The two groups read the same story with an appropriate level of difficulty which was suitable for their level of English proficiency. The only difference between their stories was that one of them had the name of the story above it and the other did not have. Each group then took a reading comprehension test and their mean scores were compared. The findings suggest that the group of students who read the story with the name of it above did not excel the group who read the same story without its name when answering to questions looking for minute aspects of the story. This lack of excellence shows that knowing the main idea of a text does not play an important role in answering reading comprehension questions which look for details of a text. The results suggest more research in this realm and also the need for instruction on answering reading comprehension texts

No, we don’t just read books all day… Developing Statistical Narratives/Infographics for Technical Services

This poster is an example of the work I have created using cataloging statistics from Sierra, Google Sheets, and Excel. The graphs illustrate the number of books I have cataloged and discarded throughout a span of years. The graphs tell a story with the numbers. This is called a statistical narrative. These stories can be created by any library department and ultimately allow outsiders, and constituents to see the value of the academic library

Accounting decoupled : A case study of accounting regime change in a Malaysian company

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Girls vs. boys in mathematics: Test scores provide one interpretation girls narratives suggest a different story

This study seeks to provide a data based critique of the claims of gender equity in mathematics. Specifically, this paper is an analysis of the personal well-remembered events (WREs) told and recorded by women who are in the first course of their preservice teaching professional sequence. Importantly, these are women who are on the professional track to teach mathematics. Using a narrative based methodology, the writings provide another angle of the intricate pieces of equity (i.e. test results say both genders are just as capable, stories of females say otherwise). The themes center around the safe zones, struggles, embarrassment, competition, and self-fulfilling prophecies. From these stories, we see subtle illustrations of existing gender inequities in mathematics