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Create a treemap

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Create a treemap

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- [Instructor] Treemaps display values as they contribute to a whole. Like a pie chart, a treemap uses the size of the area devoted to an input to indicate its contribution. Unlike a pie chart though, a treemap also uses shades of color to indicate value. Darker shades generally mean larger values and lighter shades mean smaller, and even negative values can be indicated using treemap colors. In this movie, I will show you how to create treemaps based on your business data. My sample file is 08_08_Treemap, and you can find it in the Chapter 8 folder of the Exercise Files Collection. I have already created a data connection, and here I'm looking at products that I order in five different categories for the hotels that I run. I'll break the orders down by the number of orders, so not the total of value, but the number of orders, and also by product category. So I will drag Product Category to the Rows shelf, so that's been added. And then I want the count of my orders, so I'll go to…

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