Creating Data Sources

For this example, you can replicate the data that ACT has by creating a simple Excel file with the following data and structure.

To create the data source used by the ACT example

1. Open Excel or a similar application.

2. Create the following rows of data, including the heading row with ID, name, and author:

ID	name	author
1	Hairspray	John Waters
2	St. Joan	George Bernard Shaw
3	King Lear	William Shakespeare
4	Skin of Our Teeth	Thornton Wilder
5	The Bald Soprano	Eugene Ionesco
6	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams
7	The Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde
8	Glengarry Glen Ross	David Mamet
9	The Threepenny Opera	Bertolt Brecht

3. Save the file as playdata.csv.