Lesson Plan : Using Sparklines in Microsoft Exce
Teacher Name: | Jamil Hassanzadah |
Grade: | College/University |
Subject: | Other |
Topic: | Using Sparklines in Microsoft Excel |
Content: | Students will be looking at how to use Sparklines in Microsoft Excel and We will go over various situations where Sparklines are beneficial. |
Goals: | - The student will be able to define what a sparkline is - The student will be able to explain the purpose sparklines - The student will be able to demonstrate the implantation of a sparkline - The student will be able to use advanced functions to customize their sparkline further - The student will be able to see the functionality sparklines have in Excel and when to use them |
Objectives: | - What is a Sparkline - Why Choose a Sparkline over a traditional chart? - Using a Sparkline demonstration - Review - Questions and Answers |
Materials: | - Supplied computer - Microsoft Excel |
Introduction: | A Sparkline is a small chart that is aligned with rows of some tabular data and usually shows trend information. |
Development: | - Show where to access the sparkline features - Explain differences between traditional graphs vs Sparklines - Explain when Sparklines are very useful |
Practice: | - Guided activity from start to finish on the implementation of a sparkline. - The example will show sales trends between employees with-in a company. |
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Checking For Understanding: | - Questions or feedback from the audience |
Closure: | That’s about all there is to know about sparklines. If you want to make a fancy looking Excel spreadsheet for your boss, this is the way to do it. . It brings ease and consistency to most users who want better visualizations but do not know how to create them. |
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