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.

With just these setting, we can see the effect of this map, but because of the color selection it is very difficult to see the lighter shades; let's fix this. By going into the Format Area and expanding the Data Colors section, we will be presented with a couple of options. The first one we should turn on is the option labeled Diverging. Next, we should change the colors so that they are more distinguishable. For this example, let's use a more traditional option for our colors; red for Minimum, yellow for Center, and green for Maximum.