Can you search by file folder size?

I have 42 GB left on my hard drive and I've purged as much as I can but it still says I have used 148.93 GB of space, of which I cannot really account for in Documents, Music, Movies or Photos (they are all stored on external hard drives). My Applications folder appears to only take up 17 GB of space.
Is there a way of looking at which folders contain the most information? This article from PeachPit points me to third party software but I'm curious to see if anyone knows of a way just within the native Apple environment?
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=761745
Many thanks!
Nathan

The easiest way to do this is to set a folder to 'List View' Open View Options (command-J) select to show the size column and also select 'Calculate all sizes'.
Then click on the size column to sort by size and you will have the largest at the top/bottom... including folders. So you can see where the largest files are.
Hope that helps.

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