Summarizing data in a chart
Hi,
I'm new to numbers. I've got some experience with Excel, but I've never been a spreadsheet expert.
I'm trying to summarize data into a chart. I'd like to do this without manually creating a summary table first; I'd prefer to do it without creating a dynamic summary table either, but I can't find a way to do this. I've read some documentation and watched several tutorials and all of the data is fairly simple. For example, one YouTube video has a data set like this:
Apples 23
Oranges 32
Bananas 100
Mangos 10
When a pie chart is created, there are four wedges, and the four wedges have shapes/sizes that correspond to the quantities. That all makes sense.
My problem is that I have multiple rows for each of the four types of fruit (it's actually asset classes for investments, but the idea is the same). For example:
Apples 23
Oranges 32
Apples 10
Bananas 100
Oranges 5
Oranges 1
Apples 15
Oranges 20
Bananas 2
Mangos 10
Mangos 1
Mangos 1
Isn't there a way to create a chart with four wedges, summarizing the numeric data, without having to create a separate table that does the summary first?
If I have to create a summary table first, is there a good tutorial on how to do this?
Thanks,
Rich
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