This view shows the profit and sales by ship mode for a variety of stores across the United States. It uses the pie mark to show the proportion of sales for each ship mode and location. Then the overall size of the pie indicates the profit from those sales. Follow the steps below to build this view using the Sample - Superstore Sales data source.
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Double-click the State field in the Data window. Note that it automatically assigned a geographic role. You can assign geographic roles by right-clicking the field and selecting Geographic Role.
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Drag the Ship Mode field and drop it on the Color shelf.
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Select the Pie mark type on the Mark menu.
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Drag the Sales measure and drop it on the Angle shelf.
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Drag the Profit measure and drop it on the Size shelf.
The final view is shown below. You can use the size slider on the Marks card to increase the overall scale of the marks.
