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Create summaries using sets

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Create summaries using sets

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- [Presenter] After you define a set, which is a collection of values taken from a dimension in your visualization, you can summarize your data based on that set. In this movie, I will show you how to add subtitles to your visualization to take advantage of the sets that you have defined within your data. My sample file is 07_06_SetSummary, and you can find it in the Chapter 7 folder of the Exercise Files collection. In this worksheet, I have a list of sales by state, which you can see here, for business customers. And then over in the sidebar, I have two different sets that I've created. One is DelMarVa, and that contains the states of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. They're very close together on the East Coast of the US. And the other set is Southeast, and those are the East Coast states that are below the state of Virginia, so that would be North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Let's say that I…

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