How to label scatterplot points by name?

Question

I am trying to figure out how to get labels to show on either Google sheets, Excel, or Numbers.

I have information that looks like this

name|x_val|y_val
         


        

Answer 1

Another convoluted answer which should technically work and is ok for a small number of data points is to plot all your data points as 1 series in order to get your connecting line. Then plot each point as its own series. Then format data labels to display series name for each of the individual data points.

In short it works ok for a small data set or just key points from a data set.