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Chart elements, layouts, colors, and styles

Chart elements, layouts, colors, and styles

- [Instructor] Okay, so we're going to get started with talking about inserting charts into Excel and customizing some of the chart elements and layouts and colors and styles. So, if you download the Data_Visualization_Exercises Excel workbook, you'll see a number of tabs here. For this section, we're going to be focusing on this first tab, Customizing Charts, but you'll see, moving left to right, there are a number of chart-specific tabs with datasets already pre populated. That's where we're going to be building out each of these different chart types, tree maps, sunbursts, waterfalls, radars, surface charts and so on and so forth. As you continue to move to the right, you'll see these green tabs. This is where we're going to do our next level Data Viz exercises. So, let's go all the way back to the left and focus on the Customizing Charts tab. So, I've got a basic sample dataset here. I've got data by Month, with Mobile Spend, Desktop Spend, Total, Clicks, Transactions, et cetera…

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