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Creating Charts
You can turn spreadsheet data into attractive
charts. This chapter outlines the basics of creating
charts in Pages.
Pages provides tools for creating your own visually appealing charts to present
numerical data. You can copy and paste your data from a spreadsheet, or type it
directly into the Chart Data Editor to create and edit your charts right on the page.
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 versus 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 versus their demographic
affiliation. When you enter data for a chart, the two different types of data are
represented as 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, 2004) is a data point.