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Shipping distance

Management wants to understand where its customers are and the total sales by state. To build this map, you will use spatial functions and build a distance metric. The makepoint() function creates geometric points on earth while distance() calculates the distance between two locations on earth. This is different than the straight line distance.

We do not recommend doing so, but if you lost progress you can load the solution workbook of the previous exercise 2_1_state_region_solution.twbx from the Workbooks folder.

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Instruction 1,Instruction 2

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