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Understanding charts

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Understanding charts

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- Displaying data graphically in iBooks Author is as easy as step one, choosing create a chart, step two, enter or import the data for your chart, and then step three, format your chart to match the look of rest of your book in iBooks Author. Charts are a fantastic way to display a lot of data in a very compact and digestible format. They gives us the ability to show trends that would simply be lost in a sea of numbers arranged in a table. A well designed chart will tell the story of your data at a glance. There are few common features that nearly all charts share in order to fully describe the data being presented. These include a chart title, clearly labeled and numbered axes that include the units for the values of the data being presented, and a clearly defined legend that shows what data is being presented. To help you understand the first and perhaps most daunting task for many of us, that of choosing an appropriate chart type for the type of data that we want to display, I've…

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