ABSTRACT
Daily Helmsman Editor Jonathan Capriel hypothesized that few students ride the campus buses and wanted to prove it. He brainstormed with a professor how to do that. They discovered that the probable cause cited was questionable for many of the searches, particularly when it came to marijuana cases. Databases can save journalist significant time, but collecting the information can consume enormous amounts of time. Before journalist start collecting info, define the purpose of journalist's database. For a database that might grow in size and scope, journalist might want to enter information using a coding system. It allows journalist to break information into subsets without losing the thread of the groupings. The first spreadsheet column should be a number unique for each line of data. Excel and Google Sheets, formulas are called "functions." There are hundreds of possible functions. To get a sense of the power of a spreadsheet, do an Internet search for Excel or Google Sheets functions.
