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Google sheets addons box plot2/28/2023 A further change of my work top to OSX forced the retirement of Gnumeric as a spreadsheet supported by the course. A change in computer laboratory technology to Microsoft Windows five years later saw the use of Gnumeric on Windows - until Gnumeric stopped supporting Windows. Gnumeric provided the capability of including box and whisker plots. The use of Ubuntu in the classroom meant using or Gnumeric. Spreadsheet based statistics, for all the faults and potential for error, would be at the center of the course. Downloading R would not be an option and R would be steep learning curve for some for whom computers are an unfamiliar technology. Most would wind up working on office desktops for which they would not be an administrator. Students in the course were not statistics majors and the overwhelming majority were not in a scientific field. To back up to the beginning, MS 150 Statistics was built around spreadsheets. For the first time since the loss of Gnumeric a spreadsheet was displaying a box and whisker plot.
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