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Combine sets

Combine sets

- [Instructor] 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 can 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. In this movie, I will show you how to do that. My sample file is 07_07_CombineSets, and you can find it in the chapter seven folder of the Exercise Files collection. I have business sales broken down by state. Over in the sidebar, I have two sets. The first is DelMarVa, and that set refers to the US states of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, which are close together on the east coast of the US. And below that, I have the southeast set. And that set refers to the states that are south of Virginia on the Atlantic Ocean. So North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Now let's suppose that I wanted to combine these…

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