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- Welcome!
- To the Science Fair Graphs & Numbers Tutorial
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- For your science project, you created three electromagnets made of
- three different kinds of wire -- Small, Medium and Large gauge. You
- tested each magnet to see how many nails it would pick up. You want a
- BAR CHART to show your results.
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- YOUR DATA IS... 1-2-3 steps to CREATE a BAR CHART:
- ---------------------- -----------------------------------
- MAGNET NAILS 1. Create a NEW database
- ---------- --------- 2. Enter the data
- SMALL 31 3. Select the graph to display
- MEDIUM 38
- LARGE 51
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- STEP 1: From the "FILE" pull-down menu, choose New Database. You are
- asked to enter the name for your new database. Enter a name, like
- "MAGNETS", of up to 8 characters. (No blanks in the name.)
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- Choose the database type from a list of pre-defined databases, or you
- can create a custom database. To create a BAR CHART, choose the SIMPLE
- BAR CHART Option.
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- STEP 2: ENTER DATA - This is where you enter your results of your
- experiment -- the data entry screen. Enter the data for the first
- magnet as record 1.
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- Your first Label is SMALL (small wire)
- Your first Value is 31 (number of nails)
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- Type SMALL (press Enter), type 31 (Press Enter), then enter the
- numbers for records 2 and 3. Press F7 (Exit) to end entry.
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- STEP 3: CHOOSE WHAT GRAPH TO USE: For this example, choose the
- Descriptive Statistics and Graph from the ANALYZE pull-down menu, then
- choose the Bar Graph option.
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- NOTE: Once the graph is displayed, you can use the menu at the top of
- the screen to change colors, patterns, titles, and so on for each
- graph.
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- Science Fair Graphs & Numbers allows you to create these kinds of
- graphs and calculations:
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- o Bar Chart, Pie Chart, Line Chart, Area Chart
- o Histogram, Box and Whiskers, Normal Curve
- o Cumulative Distribution, Stem and Leaf Plot
- o X-Y Scatterplot
- o Time Series Plot
- o Calculate statistics
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