Possibilities with Excel

As I think most people in class are thinking, Excel is an excellent tool for taking data and highlighting/ sharing it with staff. If only more administrators knew how to use it! At our school, we get all sorts of data, but there is no organization to it and we are supposed to look at it in an instant and find trends and see what it says. Often we get this data in multiple-page photocopies and after flipping through them we are simply frustrated and don't get much out of it. I can see the value of either organizing the data yourself to reveal certain items or teach key faculty/department people to manipulate the data themselves on Excel to see what most effects them.