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Show Values As: Rank

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Show Values As: Rank

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- [Instructor] The next show-values-as calculation that I want to cover is a pretty simple one called rank. So in our pivot table view, I don't need both of these columns, D and E, anymore. So I'm going to pull out the third instance, gross revenue. And let's go ahead and edit column D to show these values as a rank, rather than the running total. So I'm going to go in my show-values-as option, and go all the way down to my rank options. Now I can choose either smallest to largest, or largest to smallest. If I choose largest to smallest, that means that the highest revenue total within a given parent field, will return a one. If I choose smallest to largest, the smallest value within that range will return a one. So in this case, let's go with the largest to smallest, and the base field will determine, kind of the range of data that we care about. So if we choose years here, the output will essentially be a ranking from one to four within each of these genres. And what that will tell…

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