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Proportional brushing using set actions

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Proportional brushing using set actions

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- [Teacher] A good use case for set actions is what we call proportional brushing. Now this is going to use a set as part of the action so what proportional brushing does is it shows us what proportion of a group is due to another group. It's slightly hard to explain so we'll show you in detail how to create that. There's two steps to producing the proportional brushing. First, we need to create a set that's going to be used as our trigger action and then we're going to apply that set to the color on a second sheet. Then when we select one of the elements in our first sheet it's going to color-code all the relevant values in the second. Let's have a look at this in practice. So this dashboard here I've got three sheets and we're looking at the profit. So I have one in the top left looking at the regional profit across my four regions. I've got on the right a breakdown of profit first by the category and then by the subcategory. And in the bottom left, I've got every customer broken…

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