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Link data to diagrams I: Getting started

Get shapes on page; connect to data source; drag rows onto shapes

How to link data to diagrams.

Now, how do you link data to diagrams? It takes three distinct steps: One, get shapes onto the page; two, connect your data source; and three, drag data onto each shape.

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Link data to diagrams I: Getting started

Overview

How to link data to diagrams

How data improves diagrams

How data improves diagrams, cont’d

Three steps

Step 1: Get shapes on the page

Step 2: Connect to your data source

Step 3: Drag rows onto shapes

Subset of data displayed

Entire row is imported

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Practice

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Recommendations for your data

Rows should describe shapes

Data should be in table form with headings

Data should have a column with unique values

Prep your data, if necessary

Supported data sources

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