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Recently Google updated some features in its documents software. In case you haven’t been introduced Google has made free to anyone the ability to write documents, create powerpoint like presentations and even build excel like spreadsheets online. Recently they added some new features to their excel spreadsheet software that I’m very excited about. Go check them out.

1. You can now use the Trendalyzer software purchased from Gapminder to graph time data. This is a very nice flash animation that lets you show how data changes over time. It’s really one of those things that you have to see it to understand how cool it is. There are some great videos over at ted.com where a guy uses them to talk about developing countries.
2. The ability to create forms that people can fill out online. The data from those forms is stored in the Google spreadsheet. We’ve already begun to use it to organize our data and to build forms for people to use in registering for events. With the added reporting and sorting features out jobs just became a whole lot easier. No longer are we having to hand code such forms for instructors.