​Display Charts with AmCharts

Display Business Charts

in your SLIDES.COM Deck

using AmCharts

John HR Schuster

 

Display Business Charts

in your SLIDES.COM Deck

using AmCharts

John HR Schuster

​Display Charts with AmCharts

Start Using AmCharts

• Go to  AmCharts website
• Click on the SECRET button, upper Right corner
  
  
   
• Register on the web-site, yes it's FREE!
• Be prepared to invest some time in learning
  • The interface
  • The 2 bazillion different settings
  • Save work frequently, use multiple file names
• Your investment will result in awesome Charts 

​Display Charts with AmCharts

Get your Data into AmCharts

• Clean your data up
  • Change up data formats, numbers count
  • Less is more, only columns needed to chart
• Get your data into Comma Separated Value (CSV) format
• Import link, be prepared to edit data after it is in AmCharts

​Display Charts with AmCharts

Adjust the Chart Parameters

• Pick a chart type
• Set X-Axis, Y-Axis, and values
• Change Titles, Legend and
  Axis names
• Get some coffee,
  keeps adjusting setting(s)
• View results, repeat ...
• Save your work frequently
  • Closing browser window is bad
  • Save to different file names
  • Get chart close, fork it
• Practice, practice, practice

​Display Charts with AmCharts

View Results

• Masterpiece... Bravo
• Pretty... 
• Just hope the data is correct and your vision of it has some real insights

​Display Charts with AmCharts

Get some...

• ...Embed code
• Click on Publish & Share
• New page is displayed with your masterpiece,
  on top of some page art

1. Click on the Airplane (Share)
2. Click on the Clipboard Icon
    

Generated Embed Code

​Display Charts with AmCharts

Drop into a slide

• Paste Ctrl-V the embed code
• Resize the Code element
  or is it the chart element?
• What's the beef?

 

SLIDES strips out the unnecessary stuff and

leaves the beef

​Display Charts with AmCharts

Did I just break it?

• After you paste
  the embed code,
  this is the result
• Broke? No AmCharts
  uses HTTP, not HTTPS
• Trust me, everything's Okay
• Watch carefully now,
  for the animation
  when the chart opens
• Ready for it?  

What happened?

What happened?

​Display Charts with AmCharts

​Display Charts with AmCharts

John HR Schuster

Title: President, Phoenix Workgroup LLC

Does: Technology Evangelist, consultant, instructor, mentor and learning coach.

• Learn the technology
• Built the technology if it doesn't exist.
• Use the technology is a solution
• Teach & preach the technology
   

Where: East Lansing, Michigan

 

 john.schuster@PhoenixWorkgroup.com

517.927.7400

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