Getting Started with Pivot Tables (Mar 29)

J+ is a series ofaffordable and convenient digital skills workshopsby the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. It is for working journalists, freelancers, photographers, video journalists, and other communicators who want to advance in their careers, change jobs or simply tell engaging, impactful stories in today’s media overload.

GETTING STARTED WITH PIVOT TABLES
with Sandeep Junnarkar
Class meets Thursday, March 29 from 6:30 to 9 pm
The cost for this workshop is $49
Pivot Tables are a powerful, no-code-necessary, tool used by all data journalists to analyze data in a spreadsheet. If you want to group data by a column (e.g. by zip code or by company), or multiple columns (e.g. by race AND gender), pivot tables will come in handy.
 
In this evening workshop, we will cover:
 
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<LI CLASS="MsoNormal">How to set up pivot tables in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets</LI>
<LI CLASS="MsoNormal">Summing, counting, averaging, and getting minimum and maximum values with Pivot Tables</LI>
<LI CLASS="MsoNormal">Sorting and filtering data with Pivot Tables</LI>
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What to bring: You will be provided with a computer outfitted with Excel in one of our computer labs. If you have Excel on your laptop and prefer to bring it, please do so.
Level: Beginner; prior knowledge of Excel is helpful but not necessary
 
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About Sandeep Junnarkar
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Sandeep Junnarkar is the director of the Interactive Journalism Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former New York bureau chief of CNET News.com, has specialized in writing about technologies used in different industries. Junnarkar helped to create online editions of The New York Times, working as breaking news editor, writer, and Web producer when the paper went live on the Internet as The New York Times on the Web.
 
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For concerns or questions about this workshop, please e-mail pd@journalism.cuny.edu

Graduate School of Journalism

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