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Google Sheets Can Now Make Charts on Request Using Machine Learning

Google Sheets Can Now Make Charts on Request Using Machine Learning

By Shekhar Thakran | Updated: 2 June 2017 17:30 IST

Highlights

The updates are already available on Android and iOS
Explore feature was added to the app last year
Update adds support for spreadsheet shortcuts to the Web version

Google Sheets is already a useful productivity tool but the search giant has now updated it to add some more machine learning features. While users could already ask questions from Sheets to get data-related responses using Explore feature, machine learning now allows the app to create charts demanded by the users.

With the latest update, if users cannot see a chart that they need for their project or presentation, they can simply ask the app to create it for them. "Instead of manually building charts, ask Explore to do it by typing in 'histogram of 2017 customer ratings' or 'bar chart for ice cream sales'. Less time spent building charts means more time acting on new insights," the search giant said in its blog post.

Notably, users could already ask Google Sheets queries like "what is the distribution of products sold?" or "what are average sales on Sundays?" to get responses from the Explore feature, which was added last year.

Further, the giant has made it easier to keep your tables updated as users can now copy and paste data from Sheets to Docs or Slides and tap the "update" button to sync their data.

Apart from these updates, Google has also added the support for spreadsheet shortcuts to the web version of the app. The latest update is already available on both Android and iOS and can be downloaded through Google Play store or the App Store respectively.

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