Celebrate World Spreadsheet Day with the Day of Data!

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We are excited to partner with NASA to bring you the Day of Data, where you can explore how data powers our astronauts, our space missions, and our world. Celebrate World Spreadsheet Day and 20 years of humans living and working aboard the International Space Station with trivia questions, a visualization challenge, and live events.

Design your Day of Data from several activities:

• Visit the Day of Data discussion space in the Tech Community to find daily trivia questions about space, rockets, and astronauts.


• Share your skills during an Excel visualization challenge (more details below). Vote for your favorite visualizations by “liking” them.


• Join us for two education-themed live events on October 14th at 10am PDT and November 2nd at 10am PST with NASA astronauts and rocket scientists, where they will discuss how they use data and the impact that data has had on their job.


• Introduce your children to data and data visualizations using scaffolded workbooks, or bring your family to a Space Data Camp hosted virtually by the Microsoft Store.
  
  

Excel visualization challenge

Show off your visualization skills to the rest of the community! A set of analysis questions will be posted to the Day of Data discussion space on Tech Community on World Spreadsheet Day (October 17th). Choose one (or more) to answer and share with the community by posting your visualization in the discussion space. The winning visualization for each question will be chosen by a combination of a judging panel and popular vote, so also make sure to check back to like your favorites! Watch for a another post on October 17th for more information.

An astronaut on a space walk.

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