Aggregation options

Aggregation options define how your data values are combined or aggregated. Simple aggregation works at the level of visual granularity.

What this means is the data is aggregated at the level of the dimensions in the visual. Without even studying it, we have used this logic in the previous chapters when we created visuals. Whenever we wanted to see the total SUM(Sales), we would only bring the SUM(Sales) measure to our visual window. However, if we wanted to see the sales per segment, we would add the Segment dimension to our window and our sales would split up, as can be seen in the following screenshot:

This same principle ...

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