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Overview

Power BI is a business analysis service offered by Microsoft and comes with an extensive range of data visualization options and business intelligence capabilities. With its simple and intuitive user interface, users of all levels are able to build their own reports and dashboards from one or more datasets. 

Currently, there are five different tools for creating map-based data visualizations on Power BI.

Process

There are five standard map visualization options in Power BI Desktop. Click on the bullet points to find out more information about each tool:


  • Basic Map (powered by Bing)
    • Simple or sliced points
    • Requires GPS points or known locations 
  • Filled Map (powered by Bing)
    • Polygons, requires known location names
  • Shape Map
    • Polygons, possible to use your own GeoJson file
  • ArcGIS Map
    • Possible to use any publically available map on ArcGIS Online 
  • Mapbox
    • Simple points, heatmap, cluster map, cloropleth map (limited geographic locations)

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