Creating Your Map View

Before You Begin

This 15-minute tutorial shows you how to create an analysis and display results in a map view.

Background

In an analysis, a map view is rendered by using the formatting that you added to the map layer. Formatting can be color fill, graph (bar, pie, bubble, or line), variable shape, or image.

What Do You Need?

• Access to Oracle Analytics Cloud

Create an Analysis with a Map View

1. Sign in to Oracle Analytics Cloud with your credentials.
2. On the Home page, click Page Menu , and then select Open Classic Home.
3. On the Classic Home page, under Create, click Analysis.
4. In the Select Subject Area dialog box, click revenue_by_brand.
5. On the analysis page, click the Criteria tab, and expand revenue_by_brand. Drag the following columns to Selected Columns:
   • Country Name
   • City
   • Brand
   • Revenue

   

6. On the Results tab, review the values for the business intelligence columns.

   

7. Click New View , and select Map.

   

8. In the Map view, click Zoom In to enlarge the map. Hover your cursor over Russia to view the total revenue amount by country.

   

Edit Your Map View

1. On the analysis page, click the Results tab. For the Map view, click Edit View to open the Edit Map page.
2. In BI Data Layers, click Add new map formats , select Pie Graph, and then select World_Cities. In Information, click OK.
3. In the Pie Graph (World_Cities) dialog box, enter 5 in the Graph Size field, select Brand from the Slices drop-down list, and click OK.

   The map view displays revenue by brand for all cities in the pie graph format and revenue by country in the color fill format.

   

4. In the Map view, click Zoom In . To view revenue by brand for Nairobi, hover your cursor over the pie graph in Kenya.

   

5. For the World_Countries layer, click Edit .
6. In the Color Fill (World_Countries) dialog box, select 6 from the Bins drop-down list. From the Style drop-down list, select the shades of yellow with the FDEDBD, FCE087, FBDB76, EFCF67, C2A751, and 947E3A HEX color codes. Click OK, and then click Done.

   

   The map is displayed with the modified settings.

   

7. Click Save Analysis . In the Save As dialog box, enter Revenue by Brand Across World Cities for the name, and click OK.

Want to Learn More?

• Creating Your First Analysis
• Editing Map Views