Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

Chapter 5. Creating Maps

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Setting geographic roles
• Placing marks on a map
• Overlaying demographic data
• Creating choropleth maps
• Using polygon shapes
• Customizing maps

Introduction

Overlaying information on top of maps allows the readers to understand and observe data by various regions and geographic boundaries. In some other software, creating such maps would be a time-consuming task; in Tableau, however, it is very straightforward. Although seeing dense data in a map could confuse readers, Tableau provides a couple of options to create insightful maps with the use of colors, shapes, and sizes.