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Creating a column chart for your dashboard

In this chapter, you will start to put together your own dashboard.

Your first step is to create a basic column chart showing fatalities, injured, and uninjured statistics for the states of Australia over the last 100 years.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Visualization in Google Sheets

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Exercise instructions

  • In A1 of Sheet1, use a formula that refers to the heading in your Shark Attacks dataset. This can take the form of ='Sheet Name'!A1.
  • In your Shark Attacks dataset, select the State column and the Fatal, Injured, and Uninjured statistics, and then create a chart.
  • Copy and paste this chart to Sheet 1 and change the chart to a column chart.

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