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| − | Suppose you are comparing health outcomes for three countries; Japan, Korea, and China. You pull the same 12 series for each country from the UN statistics database. This gives you a pool of 36 series to work with. You might first make three GroupLists, named JapanHealth, KoreaHealth, and ChinaHealth. You might then add a group list called LifeExpectancy, with just one series from each country,
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| − | * A Title, like <i>Rainfall</i>
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| − | Every dataZoa series has a key, formed of the owner's account name and a serial number, like <i>MyAccount/00004328</i>:
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| − | These come from other sites around the Web via the [[About_the_dZ-Dot|dZ-Dot]], and dataZoa remembers where they originate, updating them for you as the sources change.
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| − | These are series you load in from [[Your_Data|your own files]] (or even just copy and paste). As such, you are responsible for keeping them [[Your_Data|up to date]].
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| − | A calculated series is the result of a dataZoa [[About_the_ComputeCloud|ComputeCloud]] formula. dataZoa updates these automatically by keeping track of their [[Calculated_Series#Ancestors|ancestors]].
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are shorthand way of working with sets of series in your account.
