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Sorting data logically

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Sorting data logically

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- [Instructor] At first glance, can we tell which one of these categories has the fourth highest value, for example? Processing the width of each bar and comparing it against the others is mentally taxing and gets exponentially worse if you have 100 categories in the view instead of 10. When we sort the categories by their values from the largest to smallest, notice how we can easily tell which one was on top, but also how they compare with one another, without having to do much work because the visual does the work for us. This is an example of a descending sorting order because we have the largest aggregated value on top and the smallest on the bottom. Conversely, if we saw the smallest value on the top, this would be in ascending sorting order. Conversely, if we saw the smallest order on top, this would mean we were looking at an ascending sorting order. In QuickSight, let's select our precipitation totals by…

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