To use a map in Data Discovery
Dashboards, you must have a data source with valid
geographic information such as states, regions, or postal codes. For more information about adding
data sources, see: Adding a data source to a dashboard.
About this task
When you use a map in a dashboard, you can show data for one location measure as a filled region,
a point, or both.
Procedure
In the Visualizations pane, drag a Map onto the
dashboard.
In the Sources pane, expand the data source that you want to use.
If you want to visualize your data by region, follow these steps:
Drag a column that contains location data into the Locations
field under Regions.
Optional: Drag another column into the Location
color field to emphasize that data.
If you want to visualize your data as points on the map, follow these steps:
Drag a column that contains location data into the Locations
field under Points.
Optional: Drag another column into the Point size
field to emphasize that data by size.
Optional: Drag another column into the Point color
field to emphasize the data by color.
If you want to visualize your data by latitude and longitude, follow these steps:
Restriction: The format for longitude and latitude must be numbers and decimals, such as
51.4769, 0.0005.
Drag a column that contains latitude coordinates into the
Latitude field under
Latitude/longitude.
Drag a column that contains longitude coordinates into the
Longitude field under
Latitude/longitude.
Optional: Drag another column into the Label field
to add labels to the map.
Optional: Drag another column into the Point size
field to emphasize that data by size.
Optional: Drag another column into the Point color
field to emphasize the data by color.
Example
In this map, you can see the number of territories in a state by the color of the region.
The points on each region show the average customer satisfaction by the size and color of the point
(a large, dark-colored point means high satisfaction). Figure 1. Sample map
visualization
