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Comparing two measures using a scatter plot

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Comparing two measures using a scatter plot

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- [Instructor] Scatterplots are a great way of showing relationships between multiple measures. They're really good at showing things like outliers and correlation between different measures in a very compact and concise visualization. Now, to build a scatterplot, we have two axes, and then we plot the aggregated totals for those two measures somewhere within the axis. Now, because of Tableau's rules of one green field equals one axis, we know we need two green fields, one on the row, one on the column. So let's put sales onto our column and put profit on our rows, and there's our scatterplot. It doesn't look very interesting, but it is a scatterplot. So what's going on here? What Tableau does is it sums up all of the sales and then sums up all of the profit and then plots where that appears on our axis. And because we didn't tell it to break it down by any of our dimensions, we have one single value. In the same way, when we build a bar chart, we have one single bar before we start…

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