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giving them this ability and risk confusing them, let's keep it simple and let them see the
world map for a single year.
If we set the year to 2010, we see the updated map in
Figure 10-7
.
Figure 10-7. Internet usage per 100 people in 2010, by country
Notice how Europe has become a giant red blob. The same is true for the the Caribbean, only
the blob is blue. What do we do about that? Two things: we can change the formatting to al-
low for transparency and circle borders, and we can add a filter for country/region to allow
users to zoom in on one particular part of the world.
1. Click on the Color card and change the Transparency to 60%.
2. Still in the Color card options, add a gray border in the Effects area. Steps 1 and 2 are
shown in
Figure 10-8
.
3. Right-click on the
Country / Region
field in the Dimensions area and select
Show
Quick Filter
.
