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Create scatter plots

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- [Instructor] In many cases, your business will collect data that contains two numerical attributes, which you can then graph using a scatter plot. For example, if you tracked customer income versus their total purchase, in this case sales total, then you can look for patterns. In this movie, I will show you how to create a scatter plot in Tableau using two sets of numerical values. My sample file is 08_04_Scatter, and you can find it in the chapter eight folder of the exercise files collection. This workbook contains a single worksheet, and over on the left you can see that I have income and sales total. I want to create a scatter chart with a dot that would show the intersection for each customer's income and sales total and look for patterns. So I'll start by dragging income to the column shelf. And this particular visualization doesn't mean anything yet. So I will drag sales total to the rows shelf. And you can see…

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