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Tutorial: Excel Spreadsheets

In several places in this class you will be expected to make plots in Microsoft Excel. If you do not feel comfortable that you are able to do this, please watch the video below. A word of caution — this video shows a much older version of Excel, so don't expect your screen to look exactly like the one in the video.


Next, produce a single plot of month (1=Jan, 12=Dec) versus both 24-hour average temperature and average rainfall for State College:

State College Average 24-Hour Temperature (link is external)

State College Average Rainfall (link is external)

Make sure you can generate these plots (you'll be asked to do this kind of thing throughout the class), but you do not need to turn anything in.

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