We will be making use of Google’s Sheets application, in particular, which is pretty much like Microsoft Excel. If you’re an accomplished Excel user, you’ll find that Google Sheets uses very similar (even identical) syntax for functions you’re used to using. If you’re not an accomplished Excel user, you’ll be learning a few spreadsheet tricks this semester. You might want to bookmark Google’s function reference<\/a> for Sheets.<\/p>\n Even if you’re already familiar with Google Drive, you may find that you need to add Google’s Fusion Tables app to your Google drive account for one of our exercises this semester.\u00a0On the main Google Drive page, click the blue “New” button, then select More > Connect more apps. (I already have Fusion Tables added to my account, so my screen may look different from yours.)<\/p>\n Fusion Tables will now be available to you in Google Drive.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may well already be familiar with Google Drive. If you don’t know about it, though, it’s a cost-free service from Google that provides\u00a0cloud storage and a cloud-based productivity suite comparable to Microsoft Office. Google’s Drive apps probably can’t match Microsoft Office\u00a0on advanced features, but they’re quite capable for just about any routine\u00a0office task, and … Continue reading “Google Drive”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8UIEH-1p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/95"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Adding](\"http:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/moreapps-e1483567477941.png\")
<\/a>If you already see Fusion Tables in this list, you can stop now. If not,\u00a0search for “fusion tables” in the next screen, then click the blue “Connect” button.<\/p>\n![\"Connecting](\"http:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/fusiontables-e1483567807132.png\")
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