Using icon sets

When we use data bars to represent our values.…Microsoft Excel creates a very precise bar.…It reads the number and it says okay, this bar should be this long.…If it's 6,000 it needs to be slightly longer than…a bar for 5,000 but shorter than one for 7,000.…And so in a set where we have 25 different…numbers, we'll actually have 25 different lengths of data bars.…Icon sets are different.…With an icon set, we're using symbols, and those symbols stand in…for the bottom third, middle third and top third of a range.…

Or the bottom quarter, middle and top quarter and so on.…These are customizable, so we'll start by saying we'd like to use icon sets.…And let's just take a look at the choices that are available to us before…we even apply any of these.…There are directional icons, so we have an arrow pointing up to the right and down.…We have those in green, yellow, red, and we have them in gray.…We also have shapes, and you'll notice the prevalence of green, yellow, and red.…

And we can't get past our training culturally.…