Visualizing And Communicating Assignment

Visualizing And Communicating Assignment
This is your course project. Make sure to save all progress often, as you will be submitting this project for review later. Working through this project, you will have the opportunity to sort and organize data into new, visually appealing charts and graphs. In Part One of the project, you will create a more refined way to view and sort through data in to making a car ing decision. In Part Two of the project, you will create an action plan to help guide your efforts in visualizing and communicating insights using data in your own workplace. In Part Three of the project, you will assist the a Census Bureau in examining population trends between different regions.
Part 1 Instructions
Recently your car has begun to have some maintenance issues, so you decide to do some initial research into ing a replacement car. You find a great website that has pricing and efficiency data for a large variety of used vehicles made in the years 2013-2017. You are wondering which auto manufacturer offers the lowest maintenance costs for 2017 vehicles. Follow the steps to create a more refined way to view and sort through the data you found on a car-pricing website in to make a ing decision.
1 Once your data is formatted in a uniform manner and is easy to read, turn the data into a table in a new tab.
2 Add a new column named Lowest to the right of the 2017 column that calculates the lowest price for each model across the five years.
3 In a new worksheet PivotTable, create a PivotTable report to analyze the lowest prices of each manufacturer and model by year.
4 Properly format values and column headings if they require adjustment.
5 You recently read an article that said cars with an efficiency rating of 3 are the most cost efficient (have the lowest maintenance costs) in the long run. Adjust your report so that you are only shown totals for cars with this rating. (Hint: add a report filter)
6 Sort the most recent data to determine which model/manufacturer is the best to start with in to keep maintenance costs low. Highlight your answer.
7 Now that you know which manufacturer to start with, go back to the Data tab and copy the data from the best manufacturer into a new tab.
8 Create a new pivot table with the most recent cost data and determine which model of car you should consider ing to meet your objective.
9 Highlight your result.
Chosen Model