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Data Analysis Data Analysis Basics Getting to Know Your Data Summarizing Data: Maximum, Minimum, Range

Posted by Anne Grader
Anne Grader
553 Points

Why does google sheets sort the values in "2017" from min to max?

Well actually the question is in the title. I don't get it...

2 Answers

Megan Amendola
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Hi! As the racers finish their times are added to the dataset so it would make sense that they are in order naturally. Does that answer your question?

Orian Sentner
Orian Sentner
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Orian Sentner
Orian Sentner
256 Points

Google Sheets doesn't necessarily or automatically sort the values from min to max. A spreadsheet can be sorted by any of the column values in a few ways, as detailed in this Google Sheets help article: Sort & Filter Your Data