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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide
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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

by Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana
July 2018
Beginner
202 pages
5h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Filled Map visual

Unlike the traditional Map visual, which uses a bubble to indicate locations, the Filled Map visual uses shading to display the geographic data. So, the lighter an area looks, the lower the representative value. For this visual, it is recommended to visit the Format Area and dictate the range of colors for the shading so it will appear more apparent.

Let's look at, setting up the visual:

  1. Select the Filled Map visual and move it to take up a quarter of the report page.
  2. Just like the previous example, we will use the Region Drilldown from the Geography table to populate the Location section.
  3. The only other field we will add to this visual is the Profit measure, which will control the Color Saturation option.

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