Month: February 2012

How to make a pivot table in excel!

I would to teach you how to make a pivot table in excel. It is something that many may not know how to do or even know what it is so they do not use it. However, a piot table can be very useful to read data in many different ways. Follow the steps below and you will be on your way to reviewing data in the way which you see fit.

  1.  Go to the start menu and hit all programs.
  2. Hit microsoft office.
  3. Launch excel.
  4. Insert data into the spreadsheet.
  5. Highlight the data.
  6. Go to the insert tab on the toolbar
  7. Under tables hit pivot table
  8. This will bring up the create pivot table option
  9. You have the option of creating the table in the existing spreadsheet or new one.
  10. Click where you want the table to be and select
  11. This will give you the pivot table field list
  12. Select which fields you want to be displayed in your list.
  13. If you want to sort the pivot by a particular field select the field and drop it into the report filter.
  14. You have successfully created a pivot table!

Numerical Representation and New Media

According to Manovich, “all new media object, whether created from scratch on computers or converted from analog media sources, are composed of digital code; they are numerical representations.” Manovich also proclaims that many new media objects are converted from various forms of old media. He expresses that this is evident in the fact that new media objects are subject to algorithmic manipulation. I agree with the evidence that he portrays and have witnessed it before on many different media objects.

With only focusing on the computer, there are many instances where digital coding is evident during the use of it. When a website is uploading digital coding is showed at the bottom left hand corner that directs web browser where to go. Next time a website is uploading notice the digital codes at the bottom of the screen. Digital coding is also present when the URL is typed into the browser. If you have ever edited a homepage on social networking sites like MySpace or twitter, you have probably played around with digital coding. For instance I constantly remember editing my page when I had MySpace. I would embed different videos and links to other websites on my page for others to view. I even remember going into the coding for my page’s background and changing some of the numbers to change the colors of my background. I did not notice it then but I was altering the old digital coding and altering it to create something new. Digital coding is in all media objects as a set of data that gives a command to let the media object know what function to do. Whether we pay attention to it, it is used in all media objects.

Constant Contact

I was first introduced to Facebook by my mother. Yes, that’s right I said my mother. She informed me that she was on Facebook and she loved it. Her favorite thing about it was this game called Farmville, where she had her own farm and recived gifts from other friends to further expand her farm. She insisted that I joined up so that I could send her the supplies she needed to tend to her farm. She proclaimed that the game was extremely addictive and that people would even spend their money to purchase these things called XPs, which allowed you to purchase products or even replenish withered products. This piqued my interest because I couldn’t believe that people would actually spend money on a game. Therefore, I created my own account and start to play that game as well as a few others; such as Sorority Life in my spare time. I however, was not willing to spend money on either games.

Although I had signed up to play the games and supply my mother with the essentials to expand her farm and the other games she soon signed up for, I found myself more content with the family members that I was able to speak to thatI usually was not able to. One in particular was my cousin who lives down south. She has three beautiful children who I do not really get to see and everyone once in a while I was able to write her and check up on the status of her as well as my baby cousins. Another cousin that I was able to speak to was my cousin from England who I only see during the summers that he is able to visit. Through Facebook we were able to speak all the time and we were able to stay posted on everything that is going in each other’s lives. If I become too busy with school and work, Facebook even gives me a reminder of when their birthdays are coming up.

For those of you have distant relatives that you no longer speak to and wish to reconnect with, social media networks like Facebook allow you to do just that.