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Power Map

An extremely recent addition to the panoply of self-service BI tools that Excel now makes available is Power Map. As its name implies, it is a powerful mapping tool that can generate some exceedingly cool geospatial representations of your data. Specifically, it can

  • Create various types of map to represent geospatial data
  • Add multiple layers of information to each map to show different data representations
  • Add a time dimension to a map and display how the data evolves over time
  • Chain several maps together into a dynamic visualization that can then be exported as a multimedia file

Power Map will use the data that you have ...

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