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[zyzzyva980]

NASA's website got redone recently, so that's probably why. Unless it was a different website, like USGS, I really don't know about that test.

[tclme elmo]

No, it was a totally different site. It was the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) site, or noaa.gov. But I was searching just for the data for like 45 minutes.

[zyzzyva980]

A lot of sites, especially government sites, update frequently. The odds of you finding somethings from 2006 are slim.

[gopanda13]

I just got put on this event. How much stuff are we supposed to be able to do on Excel?

[brobo]

Just the basics. All you need to do is input the data to make a decent chart, then turn that chart into a graph. In the newer versions of Excel, you can just highlight the chart and select the type of graph you want, and it will convert the data into a chart. The best way to learn is to just mess around with Excel, thats how I learn. But the Compute This Wiki has some good info too.

[fmtiger124]

They aren't supposed to give you anything overly complex but just in case I would know how to graph multiple lines, 2 y-axes and stuff like that just in case.

[AlphaTauri]

Then there's equations, like if they give you a chart and ask you to find the average of some numbers or the sum of them or any of those basic operations.

[tclme elmo]

Might wanna learn also about the functions.

[zyzzyva980]

Sometimes Excel isn't so user-friendly. It takes some practice to get what you want.

[tclme elmo]

...and you'd wanna familiarize yourself with different versions of Excel, not that they're that much different...and Macs/Windows...if you can...