Batch Generating Artboards from Data Sets in Variables

Thanks for the sample file, Alex.

Silly-V already told that it may be done with an action. Basically, I agree with him, and I can imagine some different and probably promising approaches. Thoroughly listening to his thoughts, you may already suspect that any kind of action route will be kinda hell of a ride in this case. It is doable, but sooner or later inflexible (e.g. the given numbers of datasets may vary often).

I'm not quite sure, but I assume that the task can be done with a nifty script altogether. Probably way more efficient than cobbling together a bumpy action.

You could do this: you can make such an action that copies and pastes some rectangle, then moves it a certain amount right-wards. If you make a copy of that copy to store in the new xy position, you can take your first copy and run the "convert rectangle to artboard" command in the Object > Artboards menu item.

You'd probably have a starting rectangle with a special note, make a copy of that rectangle in place, change its note to a temporary note, then you select all art on active artboard (via menu item) and duplicate it (if you wish to include all the art), move-copy that art into a new place. Then have your action select your temporary note and make a copy of this rectangle and use the convert-to-artboards command. Now your extra copy will create an artboard for you, but it will still be there, so you can clear it out as it should be the only selected item now. If not, you can do all kinds of notes so as to be able to deselect all, select just the noted rectangle and delete it.

Which version of Illustrator are you using?

Can you share a sample file including some variables and some further instructions in order to clarify the matter?