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Setup

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Data

You need to download some files to follow this lesson:

  1. Download the following three files:
  1. Place these 3 files in a folder you can easily find and access on your computer (for instance in a datacarpentry-spreadsheets folder on your Desktop or within your Home folder).

About the data

For more information about the dataset and to download it from Figshare, check out the Social Sciences workshop data page.

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Software

To work through this tutorial you will need access to a spreadsheet program. For this you have many options: Microsoft Excel, LibreOffice, Apple Numbers, Gnumeric, Onlyoffice, WPS office, among others. Commands may differ a bit between programs, but the general ideas for thinking about spreadsheets are the same.

For this lesson, we encourage you to use LibreOffice or Microsoft Excel, as the tasks we will be doing have been tested in these programs. If you don't have Microsoft Excel, you can use LibreOffice. It's a free, open source spreadsheet program. Here are the instructions to install it:

Windows

  • Download the Installer
    Install LibreOffice by going to the installation page. The version for Windows should automatically be selected. Click Download. You will go to a page that asks about a donation, but you don't need to make one. Your download should begin automatically.
  • Install LibreOffice
    Once the installer is downloaded, double click on it and it should install.

Mac OS X

  • Download the Installer
    Install LibreOffice by going to the installation page. The version for macOS should automatically be selected. Click Download. You will go to a page that asks about a donation, but you don't need to make one. Your download should begin automatically.
  • Install LibreOffice
    The file LibreOffice_X.X.X_MacOS_x86-64 (whichever version of LibreOffice you have selected) should have been downloaded. Double click on this file, and LibreOffice will be installed.

Linux

  • Download the Installer
    Install LibreOffice by going to the installation page. The version for Linux should automatically be selected. Click Download. You will go to a page that asks about a donation, but you don't need to make one. Your download should begin automatically.
  • Install LibreOffice
    Once the installer is downloaded, double click on it and it should install.

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