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University
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of Medicine, Department
of Microbiology
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Microsoft Excel
The spreadsheet. Wonderful for doing plenty
of calculations and other numerical analyses. Still has
plenty of features you'll probably never use, but in
this case, I'll forgive it.
Excel is not a database, no matter what Microsoft
claims. If you are going to need to search or sort
through data, such as "list every item greater than
500 in ascending order," use a database such as FileMaker.
Also, its charting capability can be really quirky. I
recommend learning to do charts with DeltaGraph-it has
many more chart types, and is considered by most to be the
charting package. You can still do the calculations in
Excel, just copy the data you want to chart into
DeltaGraph. |
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DeltaGraph Pro
The charting program. |
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Cricket Graph
Once used to be the charting program. Some still
prefer it over DeltaGraph. |
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