Graphing is an important skill in science; it displays data in a pictorial way that allows us to see trends in the data and manipulate it to display the most useful information possible. Graphing is also used in many other fields to display data in a way that highlights significant points. Therefore, graphing and drawing conclusions from that graphs are skills we will start to learn in this lab. You are strongly encouraged to use your laptop if you have one so that you learn the process specific to your computer so you will be able to use it in other classes as well. We have included Excel $2013$ instructions for Windows. MAC users will want to look over these commands before lab whether you have Excel or Numbers. At the time these instructions were written Google Sheets did not have all of the features necessary for the completion of this lab and thus is not recommended. In general, we highly suggest you purchase Microsoft Office $($which includes Excel$)$ for your computer if you do not already have it$.$ It will be a necessary resource for this class and many others. Taylor offers discounted rates for students for Microsoft office.