All language subtitles for 6Topic 3-1 Entering Data Week 1 Getting to Know Excel & Enterin

so we've done some really great work so far

we're comfortable with Excel now

we understand how spreadsheets work

we've worked with cell referencing

we know kinds of data categories we put into Excel

we know that for some of those data categories

like numbers

there are many different data types

and we need to be very clear

through self formatting

which data types were using

so we have a lot of our foundation built

and now we're very

very close to entering data and working on our project

and as you know

our first project that we're going to be working on

is dealing with weather data for a location near us

I'm near Charlotte

North Carolina

and so that's the data I'm going to be showing you

and what I'm going to do here is

I'm going to introduce you to the data

that we're going to be using

and then we can think about planning our spreadsheet

and then we'll enter in our data

after which

we'll be ready to go with plotting and analysis

and doing a lot of the things

that you're here to learn about and excel

now remember

this is one of the first products

we're going to be producing

we're going to be producing a plot

of high and low temperatures per month

across a year

for a location near us

so let's keep this in mind

the first thing we need to do is

we need to find a good data set

for this and so

what I'm going to do is

I'm going to introduce you to

one of a few different web pages

where you can go to look up climate data

and weather data for a location near you

and then that's what we're going to use

to prepare ourselves

to collect those data and put it into Excel

or then we can manipulate and visualize it

here I'm gonna share with you

one potential source of weather

climate information

that I recommend for what we're doing

for the next few steps in this class

that's the World Weather Information Service

you can see that I just used a search bar

to look for that web page

it pops up right here

and here we have the URL

if you'd like to

just type that directly into your browser

we're going for

the World Weather Information Service

this is a fantastic web page

because what it does is

it provides weather information and climate information

for cities all around the world

all we have to do is just enter in a location near us

that we're particularly interested in

and then we'll

get some of the data that we're interested in

so I'm going to

type in a city near me Charlotte

North Carolina

in the United States

and you can and should

search for a location of interest to you

the first thing we see

is we see the current weather conditions

and we see the forecast for the next few days

but if we scroll down

then here's the data we're really after

in this table here

you can see that we have the mean

daily high temperatures

and low temperatures

for particular months of the year

this is over a 30 year period

and these are averages

so on average

the low temperature in January

in Charlotte

is going to be about 29.6

or 30 degrees Fahrenheit

and we have that for every month of the year

you can see that we also have rainfall data

and so maybe we can use this as well

as we're moving forward in this class

right up above

you can see one kind of plot

and you saw that

we're going to be producing a plot very much like this

using Excel

so this is a fantastic source of information

that hopefully will be of interest to you

as we move forward in this class

I'm also going to provide links to a few other sources

of weather and climate data that you can use

if this one doesn't quite do the trick for you

now that we have our data source

what we're going to do is

we're going to look at what we need to do

to enter those data into Excel

that means setting up our spreadsheet

so that's our next step

will be setting up our spreadsheet

and getting ready in advance

so that we can then enter our data

and start working with those data

that's what's coming up next