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Creating Charts
You can turn spreadsheet data into attractive
charts. This chapter outlines the basics of creating
charts in Keynote.
Keynote provides tools for creating your own visually appealing charts to present
numerical data. You can copy and paste data from a spreadsheet or type it directly
into the Chart Data Editor to create and edit your charts right on the slide canvas. By
default, Keynote coordinates the appearance of your charts with the theme you’re
using.
About Charts
Charts show the relationship of two types of data with respect to each other. For
example, if you chart business growth over time, you are showing the relationship
between the size of the business and the passage of years. If you chart voting results
among different demographic groups, you are showing the relationship between the
number of people who voted a certain way and their demographic affiliation. When
you enter data for a chart, the two different types of data are represented as data
series and data sets.
Data Series and Data Sets
In a business chart, an example of a data series could be one region’s profits over four
successive years; the data sets could be all of the regions’ profits for only one of those
years. In the illustration below, the data series (each region’s profits) are in rows, and
the data sets (each year’s profits) are in columns. Each individual value (for example,
17 for Region 1, 2005) is a data point.