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(lively music) - [Instructor] I hope your report is looking beautiful. Now let's start to tackle mine. The most overwhelming point I think is that there are too many colors. First, let's tackle these tree maps. They're far too colorful and distracting, and the auto coloring that's been applied suggests that segment one is in some way related to product one and country one, government, Paseo and France, for example, are all related because they're all that mid blue. In actual fact, there's no relation between those things. Now, it doesn't take that long for us to work that out, but we want to make life easy for our audience. When people look at your report, they automatically look for patterns. They might not even realize they're doing it, but it's a basic human trait. So if they see one color being used for diverse purposes, they will be confused. And also, I don't really want these filters too prominent, so let's make…

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