{"id":18997,"date":"2016-12-03T19:54:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=18997"},"modified":"2016-12-03T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:54:36","slug":"spreadsheets-libreoffice-calc-how-to-get-a-graph-and-equation-from-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-libreoffice-calc-how-to-get-a-graph-and-equation-from-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets:  LibreOffice Calc:  how to get a graph and equation from data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shows how to get a graph and equation for data using LibreOffice Calc, in six easy steps.<\/h1>\n<ol>\n<li>\nLet&#8217;s imagine your x-data is in a1:a5, your y-data, b1:b5.<\/li>\n<li>\nSelect the range a1:b5.<\/li>\n<li>Click the Chart icon, which looks like a little pie graph.  You&#8217;ll probably see your chart immediately, but it may not be a scatter plot.<\/li>\n<li>A chart wizard opens up, offering you choices.  Pick XY(Scatter).  You can also pick, on successive screens, other options as well, but for this purpose, you can next click Finish.\n<li>Now, on the scatter plot that appears, you&#8217;ll see blue markers.  Click on one of them; they&#8217;ll turn green.  They need to be green.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the top and click Insert, then the Trend Lines&#8230; option.  You&#8217;ll see different types of equations available.  Select the one you desire, then, to see the equation, check the box Show Equation.  Finally, click OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shows how to get a graph and equation for data using LibreOffice Calc, in six easy steps. Let&#8217;s imagine your x-data is in a1:a5, your y-data, b1:b5. Select the range a1:b5. Click the Chart icon, which looks like &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-libreoffice-calc-how-to-get-a-graph-and-equation-from-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spreadsheets:  LibreOffice Calc:  how to get a graph and equation from data<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371,11,1951,637,7,1065],"tags":[2056],"class_list":["post-18997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-chemistry","category-libreoffice-calc","category-linux","category-physics","category-spreadsheets","tag-regression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18997"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19008,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18997\/revisions\/19008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}