Working with Maps in Excel 2013
Yes, now it is possible to work with nice charts that have Maps in Excel 2013. The latest version comes with the Power View. It is an extremely powerful reporting tool. Sometimes we need to get sales reports and we want to identify regions and patterns of sales related to the customers.
In this article you will learn how to create cool reports in Excel. We will show countries, cities and specific geographical points. This article is for newbies who want to learn about this exciting area.
Getting Started
Let's start with a simple Excel sheet
We have countries, the revenue and the number of customers in an Excel Sheet. We want to see the revenue per country on a World Map using Excel. So, let's create a report with maps.
First, select your data. Then click on the Format as Table icon and pick a table style.
Your table will look like the one below:
The next step is to create the charts with Power View. To do this, go to the menu and select the tab Insert -> Power View.
If it is the first time that you use Power View you will be prompted to enable the feature. So, just press the Enable button.
Please note that you will need Silverlight installed. Silverlight is a tool for creating interactive applications, and it is required to generate Power View reports. You will see a message offering to install the program. Click on the Install Silverlight link to get it.
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Once enabled, a new sheet will be created for our Power View reports:
Now choose the Map option.
In order to enlarge the map, click in the bottom right corner and move your mouse cursor to the right and down.
As you can see, the countries from your Excel Sheet (South Africa, France, Italy and Bolivia) are now displayed on the map:
What do the blue circles mean?
Blue circles on the map show the revenue. The bigger a circle the bigger our revenue is. With Power View you can chose what you want to check on the map using the Size field on the Power View Fields pane:
Awesome. Isn't it?
Can Power View detect cities?
Power View is great in detecting cities. Let's try it with this Excel table:
We want to see the revenues per city on the map.
Follow the same steps to create reports that we used for the countries. Now it will be easier because you do not have to install or enable anything.
We are going to create a new Power View sheet and select the map option:
As you can see, Power View spots the cities and it shows Houston, San Jose and Des Moines.
Sometimes there are cities with the same name in different countries. For example, there is a city named Santa Cruz in USA, Chile, Spain, and Bolivia. In this case you may need to give more details to display the correct city.
How can I specify the country and city with Power View?
In order to solve the problem with identically named cities, you need to specify both the name of the city and country in Excel:
In the city column, we type the city and the country separated by comma.
To update the information right click on the map and select the option Refresh Sheet.
With the country specified we are now sure that all the cities in our Excel table are from the USA as expected.
It can detect cities around the world automatically. Cool isn't it?
What if I want to graph specific geographical coordinates on the map?
If you want to display certain geographical coordinates on the map, your Excel 2013 can do that. For this purpose we will work with latitude and longitude. These coordinates are necessary to graph the points on our map.
If you do not know anything about latitude and longitude, please have a look at the article Geographic coordinate system.
In Excel you will need the latitude and longitude to graph specific points. You can get the points using Google Earth, your smartphone can help you to get this information or you can use any other tools.
In this sample I will use the website satelliteview.com
As you can see, it is possible to obtain the latitude and longitude of any blog from the site.
Now you will need a table with the Latitude and Longitude columns in Excel:
As we did before, go to Insert <->Power View and create a map.
Power View detected the Latitude and Longitude columns. We need to add Revenue to the Locations list, because we want to see the Revenue value per store on the map. Please see the screenshot below:
Now you have the stores displayed on the map!
As you can see now, we have got an extremely powerful report in Excel with Power View. All we need are Excel 2013, Silverlight and some geography knowledge.
From this article you learnt how to graph the countries, cities and geographical points using Excel and Power View.
51 responses to "Working with Maps in Excel 2013"
Thanks for posting information.Really best concept to use in excel.
Thanks, this it good
Thanks a lot, this really helped. I had Office 2013 but had no idea how to proceed and get this working. :)
Thanks. Yes in my opinion it is the best feature.
Hi Daniel,
Looks like a great application. I´m searching for a non-ArcGIS tool that enables making world maps with standard deviation of daily maximum temperature of cities around the globe, with the final goal to create a world map with isolines (in this case: lines connecting points with the same standard deviation). I see that everything till the isolines is possible; I don´t have excel 2013 yet, but do you know if also isolines can be created by this excel tool?
Kind regards,
Martin
Hello Martin
Unfortunately, it is not yet possible.
Hi.
Thanks for the example. I would like to ask you what's the relation between this tool and Power Map. I just found this amazing tools today and I'm starting to learn about.
Juan
The Excel communicates with MAPS. That is the relationship.
Thank you for sharing . Excellent tutorial
Hi, thanks for your post, it was really helpful.
but I have one question though: I'd like to mark on the map some regions that are my sales zones. Is there any tool that allows me to save a map and mark it as needed, and then to use it in power view?
thanks a lot!
You can mark the points, but not areas.
Hello!
I would like to use power view maps on my computer that doesn't have internet acces. How can I use offline maps in Excel?
Internet access is a requirement.
How to provide security in Power View Reports ?
Hey Guys,
I do not have Power view button. Is there any alternative??:(:(:(
Hello Anusha. Do you have the Excel 2013 installer?
Try to repair the installation.
Thanks a lot! For guiding us, how to specify city and country.
Great tutorial, but I was wondering is it posibile to show information by administrative boundaries (municipalities)? In my case I would like to plot information over municipalities of Serbia.
I have the same issue, though with municipalities in Bulgaria
Maybe you can work with geographical point directly.
thanks, when I tried to map data for Sweden with 368 cities, it says "Too many "Column1" values. Not displaying all data. Filter the data or choose another field. Any ideas
thanks a lot for help full article
i don't know way you put the revenue in location and in size part???
can you explain for me???
thanks a lot
Thank you!
Life-saving article, really sorted me out for a major client presentation. Is it possible to format according to the filter set, e.g. if the co-ordinates are filtered for North, Central and South, can I pick red dots for North, blue for Central and green for South?
I need a practical example of mapping and its relationship to GIS point
Is there any way where we can have bubbles for two variables ?
Thank's a lot
Could you explain about states?
Hi.
Using Power Map for Excel 2013, I am trying to figure out how to highlight an entire country. Currently, when I have a Country name, it simply places a dot in the middle of that country. I want to highlight the entire country.
Does anyone perhaps know how to accomplish this? An example of what I am trying to achieve can be seen 2m55s into this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFEq3m2RABQ&list=WL&index=5
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!!!
woo
Is there a way to change the map background and relate it to your data with x-y coordinates?
This is learned.
Thank You very much. It is very helpful.
Hi, this is great thanks for posting.
I need to publish the Excel generated maps in Powerpoint. I can't see how to do that other than by screenshots which isn't clever. Can you help?
Thanks.
Hello, as far as I know this feature is not applicable to PowerPoint.
How can I create a simple map with a grid overlay so I can easily locate places along X Y coordinates?
Power View not visible on the ribbon in Excel 2013
Tried to add using add-in but still not appearing.
Regards
T
Hi,
Please assist
I have been assigned to create a map and I was following your instructions only to find out that I am using windows 2010,
Please assist by creating for a process flow same as 2013 but for 2010
Siphiwe
RSA
As far as I know, the Excel 2010 does not have this feature.
Thank you, But how can we create a map where countries are listed by different color, for example to insert 4 different colors for each of the 4 different countries I have?
thanks
Cool, thanks for this tutorial.
This was is great, does exactly what I needed :)Thank you for taking the time to post these instructions.
Hi, I want to create a hub and spoke diagram using this. How can I do that. like A is supplying to B,C,D locations so connected via a line... Pls help
scotland is not showing
How do you save it if you want to give a presentation?
Great Tutorial, thanks.
Would it be possible to show a pie chart per country? So lets say for example Bolivia's revenue is made up of 3 products. Would it be possible to have a pie chart in that country showing the piechart with the 3 products? This would be used to compare which product is sold more in a specific country.
Great ! thank you very much for guiding us.
Sir i have to show mfg. plants and exporting country with different colors how i can i show them with different colors like we export our product to srilanka
and have mfg plants in Columbia so how i can show them with different colors.
Best Regards
Do anyone knows how to get started on this?
Thank you.
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M3A5 Cost-to-Charge Ratio Exercises
For the following questions, use the Cost-to-Charge Ratio Worksheets file provided. Provide your answers in an attachment.
1. Use mappings to figure out cost-to-charge ratios for departments not yet calculated.
a. Apply relevant information to the trial balance to populate the cost centers, sub account information, salary/other type, and cost center.
b. In the charge section, apply mappings for cost center departments to the CDM summary.
c. Aggregate costs and charges in the cost-to-charge ratio tab.
2. An audit has uncovered mammography charges in an off-site clinic, but the costs for the mammography services are already allocated to the RAD-MAM department. The total charges for mammography in the clinic are $300,000. What is the new cost-to-charge ratio for mammography?
3. Due to competitive forces and favorable managed care contracting, management decides to restrike radiology charges such that the cost-to-charge ratio for each radiology department will be no less than 0.5000. What is the target for total charges for each category? If the change to charges is uniform, what is the factor to apply to each cost center’s charges (old price × conversion factor = new price)?
Source: Brian Herdman, Operations Manager, Financial Reimbursement Services of CBIZ K&A Consulting
Good day,
I am monitoring 15 vessels daily. For this I copy the vessel's positions in an excel file. I would like this positions to be shown automatically in google earth (or maps), but not all the positions, only the last one added. Is there software for this, or another way to manage this?
Best regards,
Eric
Hello, good afternoon:
I have a problem.
A group of people in my work each week send me reports using their own worksheets and I want to extract this data to my single analisys worksheet
Each worksheet has different sheets labeled with the date, for example:
sheet1 labaled: 17-07-21 sheet2 labeled: 17-07-20 and so on.
It would be easy for me to extract data from these different worksheets just linking the label if they would be the same label all the time but because the label is the date, it is always changing and the previous link would be lost.
How I can solve this problem using Macros (VB)?
basically how to solve the issue with this changing date label?
I would apreciate your help.
thanks
Cristian
How to mapping the MAP location
individual address ,
share the easy idea for excel sheet using
Big thanks to this article, its very useful for mapping out data. More power