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Create a column group

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Create a column group

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- [Narrator] Alright, so in this sub lesson we are going to create a set of data groups. So what I'm going to do here just to present the problem to you is going to go to my sales territory table. And we can see here we've got regions and those regions roll up into countries. But wouldn't it be nice if we had a way to take these countries and roll them into continents? So right now we actually don't have that data and it came from nowhere inside of our data source. So what we're going to do inside of Power BI here is actually build a data group so that we can assign continents to this. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to go over to the sales territory country column here. And with the column tools highlighted, I'm going to find this button over where it says data groups. So I'm going to click on it and say, "Let's create a new data group." So what I'm going to do here now is I'm going to go ahead and build my first group. So I'm going to click on Canada and what I'm going to…

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