yogi_From Entries Of Town In Column A Compute Number Of Instances of Each Town And Chart It

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Yogi Anand, D.Eng, P.E.      ANAND Enterprises LLC -- Rochester Hills MI     www.energyefficientbuild.com.   Jan-10-2014

question by Yeeputt (http://productforums.google.com/forum/?zx=qq552mtii8o4&usp=sheets_web#!category-topic/docs/spreadsheets/LAcJH_dNajU)
Creating a chart using only a single data source (one column in a sheet)

I’m trying to do a chart that is based on only one column of information in a sheet, which is entered using a drop down box. 

So, say, for example, I was collecting information on a group of students and one column related to where they lived, and the other columns were irrelevant. 

The might look column something like this:

Residence Location of Student

Town A

Town B

Town C

Town A

Town A

Town C

Town D

Town B

Town B

Town A

I want to do a chart which shows how many times each “town” appears in that one column. 

Is that possible?

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