{"id":2512,"date":"2019-04-01T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:32:47","slug":"charts-and-pivot-tables-let-excel-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"Charts and Pivot Tables &#8211; Let Excel Work for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2030 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/Lynda-Icon_2x.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lynda.richmond.edu\">Lynda.com<\/a> provides hundreds of self-paced tutorials, videos, and lessons to learn technical concepts and software tools.<\/p>\n<p>This content is developed by experts in the field. Each lesson has a suggested completion time, an overview of topics covered, and often example files.\u00a0 You can learn a broad concept or search by keyword to find answers to specific questions.\u00a0 This resource is available to all members of the Richmond community.<\/p>\n<h2>Example Lynda.com Lessons and Other Resources<\/h2>\n<p>Here are some sample Lynda.com lessons and related resources to explore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Excel-tutorials\/Select-data-display-chart\/802837\/5026212-4.html?srchtrk=index%3a6%0alinktypeid%3a2%0aq%3aCreating+pie+chart+in+Excel+Office+365%0apage%3a1%0as%3arelevance%0asa%3atrue%0aproducttypeid%3a2\">Select Data to Display as a Chart<\/a> (4:15) &#8211; Take existing data and create visual displays in Pie, Line, and other types of charts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Excel-tutorials\/Creating-PivotTables\/728369\/790152-4.html?srchtrk=index%3a1%0alinktypeid%3a2%0aq%3aCreate+Pivot+Table+Office+365%0apage%3a1%0as%3arelevance%0asa%3atrue%0aproducttypeid%3a2\">Creating Pivot Tables<\/a> (4:56) &#8211; A Pivot Table is a great tool for creating quick summary totals based on a list of data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Focus on UR Wellbeing: Tech Skills Workshops<\/h2>\n<p>The law library provides tech skills workshops to provide students hands-on experience in practical technology areas. We welcome feedback on the workshops and blog posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating Charts and Pivot Tables are great ways to take data and present the numbers in an easy to digest fashion.  Let Excel do the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3008,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}