This example uses the California website visits sample data to show data by latitude and
longitude on a map.
Before you begin
You must have access to the IBM®
Cognos® Analytics with Watson base
samples. If your administrator installed these samples, they are in .
Procedure
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Click New and then click Report.
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In the Templates and themes window, click Blank
and then click OK.
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On the canvas, click the Pinned icon , and then click
Visualization.
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In the Visualization gallery, click Map, and then
click OK.
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At the top of the data slot pane, click the down arrow and select
Latitude/Longitude.
- In the navigation pane, click Select sources or the Add
a source icon , select and click Open.
- Expand California Zip Website Visits Xlsx and drag
Latitude and Longitude to their data
slots.
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Drag City to the Label data slot. The latitude,
longitude, name of the city appears when you hover over the data points.
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Drag Website Visits to the Point size data slot
and drag Visitor Ranking to the Point color data
slot.
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Select Page preview to run the report.
Note: You can also click to run the report.
The report runs and zooms in on California. Notice that the visualization is hard
to read because the points are very close together.
- Select Page design to return to page design mode. If you ran the
report from Run options, close the tab, which returns you to page design
mode.
- Make sure that the visualization is selected on the canvas, and in the
Properties pane, under LATITUDE/LONGITUDE, in the
Type field, select Cluster.
- Under LATITUDE/LONGITUDE, set Transparency
to 20.
- Optionally, under COLOR PALETTE, set a color palette for the
Latitude/Longitude property.
- Run the report.
Now the website visits are clustered by latitude and
longitude.
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Save the report when you're done.