Before you Begin
This 10-minute tutorial shows you how to create a map, change the map's name, background color, and colors representing the sales data element. You also add zoom controls to the map view.
Background
You can create maps to visualize data such as sales by city and country, products purchased in a specific region, and determine where you might need to add sales resources.
What Do You Need?
- Access to Oracle Analytics Cloud or Oracle Analytics Desktop
- Download world_cities_data.xlsx to your computer
Create a Dataset
In this section, you create a Dataset and workbook with a spreadsheet data source.
- Sign in to Oracle Analytics.
- On the Home page, click Create, and then click Dataset.
- In Create Dataset, click Drop data file here or click to browse. In Open File, select the
world_cities_data.xlsx
file, and then click Open. - In Create Dataset Table from world_cities_data.xlsx, click OK.
- Click Save. In Save Dataset As, enter
world_cities_data
in Name, and click OK. - In world_cities_data, click Create Workbook.
Create a Map View
In this section, you select data elements and pick a map visualization to represent the data.
- Review the insights about your dataset, and then close the Auto Insights panel.
- In the Data panel, hold down the Ctrl key, and then select Country and Sales. Right-click, select Pick Visualization, and then select Map .
Change the Map
In this section, you change the map background.
- Select the map visualization. In the visualization's properties, click Auto in the Title row, select Custom, and then enter
World Sales
. - In Properties, click Map . Click Default (Thematic) in the Background Map row, and then select Oracle BI.
Add Zoom Controls
In this section, you add Zoom Controls to increase (+) or decrease (-) the size of the map.
- In Properties, click Map , and then click Off in the Zoom Control row to enable zoom controls in the map view.
Change Map Color
In this section, you change the default color used to represent sales data points. You can implement different color options by entering the web color number representing the color that you want to use, or by selecting Manage Assignments from the Color menu.
- In the map view, click Menu , select Color, select Manage Assignments. In Manage Color Assignments, click Default (Redwood), and then select a Series Color Palette such as Southwest.
- Click Edit to select a color in the palette, and then click Done.
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Create a Map View of Your Data
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August 2022
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