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Combine sets - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Tableau 2024.1: Essential Training
Combine sets
When you define a set within your data, you identify a number of values that have something in common. If you have customers in the eastern United States, you could have an East or Mid-Atlantic region, for example. After a while, you might decide to combine two or more sets into a single set. And in this movie, I will show you how to do that. My sample file is 07_07_Combined, and you can find that in the Chapter_07 folder of the exercise files collection. This workbook has a visualization, and that is a text table that summarizes sales by state. This workbook also contains two sets. The first one is Delmarva. Referring to the states Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. And then also the other set is Pacific Northwest and those referred to four states at the upper left corner of a map of the US. And those are Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Idaho. I know that these items are sets because the little Venn diagram or set indicator appears next to them. One way to use a set is as a filter. So…
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