Power BI Maps

This post will be a quickie post on Power BI maps because the other project I was working on is taking me way longer than I had hoped. So this is just a little post on a cool thing I did this weekend.

I was reading the news to gather the state of affairs and one article talked about a county next to the one I live in and some questions were raised in my mind. I was curious whether that county leaned Republican or Democrat, so I decided to play with some data I had pulled earlier in the year. This was data at the county level and it has all kinds of interesting data. This time I tried to do it in a map form.

I thought Power BI had two visualizations that dealt with maps?

Now there is only one? The one I found was the ArcGIS icon in the visualization pane, highlighted in yellow below:

This one I had to play around with but I eventually got it to work and got something like this:

The seafoam green represents Republicans and the red Democrats – the coloring is backwards. I haven’t figured out how to change the colors; I would have to change the formulas in the original data table where I had a formula designating whether a county voted mostly Democrat or Republican.

But this was fun to play around with. Most southern states is mostly Republicans surrounding splotches of Democrats; those splotches are probably sizable cities. Oklahoma was 100% Republican.

So yeah, this was fun to explore.