Reddit AMA count visualization – Under 15 mins

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Someone on Reddit posted a summary of counts of AMA by category.

The counts are shown in this thread

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Let us see how quickly we can visualize this data?

Step1 : We copy the data and paste into Excel

Inside the browser, we select the text, right click and copy the text

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We then paste the data into Excel

Step2: Split the single column into two columns

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In the text to columns wizard we give the “:” colon as the seperator

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Step 3: Copy the columns and Transpose

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Copy the contents of the two columns

Next, select another cell on the same sheet, right click and select “Paste Special”

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Select ‘Transpose’ in the paste special options. Click OK

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In the last cell just, create a formula to concatenate all the values into a single cell

=H1&”,”&I1&”,”&J1&”,”&K1&”,”&L1&”,”&M1&”,”&N1&”,”&O1&”,”&P1&”,”&Q1&”,”&R1&”,”&S1&”,”&T1&”,”&U1&”,”&V1

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Copy the formula and paste it for the below row too. Now we have all the data in two cells

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Create a New page and drag the Pie chart

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Right click on the chart and select ‘Edit Text’

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Paste the Excel data here

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Prefix the first line with “lables:” and the next line with appropriate data name, in this case “Reddit AMA:” (see below)

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Important: When you copy/paste from Excel, it adds blank lines. Make sure you delete any extra lines. The sure way to know that there are no blank lines is that the cursor does not go to the next line when you press down arrow.

Here is the final chart

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The chart took under 15 mins from data scraping, excel merge to the final presentation but this tutorial took around 60 mins to prepare 🙂

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