Figure 1.8

FIGURE 1.8

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What We Will Recreate

Note: This is the most difficult of all graphics in

the sample Data Narrative

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First, copy the needed tracker data into a scratch workbook


Copy This Tracker Data

These scores are from the

Assessment tabs in the Standards Mastery Tracker

(not from the FINAL tab)


Copy This Tracker Data

These scores are from the FINAL

tab in the Reading Growth

Tracker


Put It In A Scratch Workbook Like This

You’ll need to add in the

months manually

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Next, organize the data so that Excel will make

the figure you want


Organize The Data So It Looks Like This

Notice what we did here. The

STEP levels are not right

Excel can only recognize

numbers. And for this graphic, we

want the numbers to be on a similar

scale.



We converted the STEP levels

to arbitrary numbers with similar gaps

between them.

Excel can only recognize

numbers. And for this graphic, we

want the numbers to be on a similar

scale.



Remember our final graphic has no y-axis, so we

just need the points to show

directionality and trending, NOT

magnitude

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Now, highlight the organized data and tell

Excel what kind of graphical display you

want


To Make The Figure, Select The “Insert” Menu

Select “Insert” and select “Scatter”


That Gets Us This. We’re Getting Close!


Go Ahead And Delete The Numbers Under The Axis

Just click on this box and delete. We don’t need these numbers keeping count of data points.


Go Ahead And Delete The Numbers Left Of The Axis

Just click on this box and delete. The axis

scale is wrong anyway. STEP is not on the same scale as Standards Mastery


Now Let’s Make Those Data Points Bigger And Better.

Right-click on the data points

and select a larger size

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Lastly, make the figure accessible by adding title, axis labels, etc.


To Add Data Labels, Go To The “Layout” Menu

We’re not going to use the data labels they give us. We’re going

to type over them.


Click Into The Data Label To Edit It

You might need to add data labels to each set of data

separately by clicking on the data

points.


We click into these labels and type in what we

want.

Click Into The Data Label To Edit It


Adding The Months Of The Year Is Tricky.

Select “Chart Title” and pick “Horizontal”


Type In The Axis Label

You’ll type in an axis label for

Sep


Then Create Some Space For Oct Label

You are tricking Excel into

allowing you to create your own

label for the axis


Keep Creating Space For The Month Labels


Slide Over The Month Labels To Align


To Add Titles, Go To The “Layout” Menu

Select “Chart Title” and pick “Above Chart”


Type In The Title

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Well done!